///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Name: cmdline.h // Purpose: documentation for wxCmdLineParser class // Author: wxWidgets team // RCS-ID: $Id$ // Licence: wxWindows license ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /** @class wxCmdLineParser @wxheader{cmdline.h} wxCmdLineParser is a class for parsing the command line. It has the following features: distinguishes options, switches and parameters; allows option grouping allows both short and long options automatically generates the usage message from the command line description does type checks on the options values (number, date, ...). To use it you should follow these steps: @ref wxCmdLineParser::construction construct an object of this class giving it the command line to parse and optionally its description or use @c AddXXX() functions later call @c Parse() use @c Found() to retrieve the results In the documentation below the following terminology is used: switch This is a boolean option which can be given or not, but which doesn't have any value. We use the word switch to distinguish such boolean options from more generic options like those described below. For example, @c -v might be a switch meaning "enable verbose mode". option Option for us here is something which comes with a value 0 unlike a switch. For example, @c -o:filename might be an option which allows to specify the name of the output file. parameter This is a required program argument. @library{wxbase} @category{appmanagement} @seealso wxApp::argc and wxApp::argv, console sample */ class wxCmdLineParser { public: //@{ /** Specifies both the command line (in Windows format) and the @ref setdesc() "command line description". */ wxCmdLineParser(); wxCmdLineParser(int argc, char** argv); wxCmdLineParser(int argc, wchar_t** argv); wxCmdLineParser(const wxString& cmdline); wxCmdLineParser(const wxCmdLineEntryDesc* desc); wxCmdLineParser(const wxCmdLineEntryDesc* desc, int argc, char** argv); wxCmdLineParser(const wxCmdLineEntryDesc* desc, const wxString& cmdline); //@} /** Frees resources allocated by the object. @b NB: destructor is not virtual, don't use this class polymorphically. */ ~wxCmdLineParser(); /** Add an option @a name with an optional long name @a lng (no long name if it is empty, which is default) taking a value of the given type (string by default) to the command line description. */ void AddOption(const wxString& name, const wxString& lng = wxEmptyString, const wxString& desc = wxEmptyString, wxCmdLineParamType type = wxCMD_LINE_VAL_STRING, int flags = 0); /** Add a parameter of the given @a type to the command line description. */ void AddParam(const wxString& desc = wxEmptyString, wxCmdLineParamType type = wxCMD_LINE_VAL_STRING, int flags = 0); /** Add a switch @a name with an optional long name @a lng (no long name if it is empty, which is default), description @a desc and flags @a flags to the command line description. */ void AddSwitch(const wxString& name, const wxString& lng = wxEmptyString, const wxString& desc = wxEmptyString, int flags = 0); /** Returns @true if long options are enabled, otherwise @false. @see EnableLongOptions() */ bool AreLongOptionsEnabled(); /** Before Parse() can be called, the command line parser object must have the command line to parse and also the rules saying which switches, options and parameters are valid - this is called command line description in what follows. You have complete freedom of choice as to when specify the required information, the only restriction is that it must be done before calling Parse(). To specify the command line to parse you may use either one of constructors accepting it (@c wxCmdLineParser(argc, argv) or @c wxCmdLineParser(const wxString) usually) or, if you use the default constructor, you can do it later by calling SetCmdLine(). The same holds for command line description: it can be specified either in the @ref wxcmdlineparserctor() constructor (with or without the command line itself) or constructed later using either SetDesc() or combination of AddSwitch(), AddOption() and AddParam() methods. Using constructors or SetDesc() uses a (usually @c const static) table containing the command line description. If you want to decide which options to accept during the run-time, using one of the @c AddXXX() functions above might be preferable. */ /** Breaks down the string containing the full command line in words. The words are separated by whitespace. The quotes can be used in the input string to quote the white space and the back slashes can be used to quote the quotes. */ static wxArrayString ConvertStringToArgs(const wxChar cmdline); /** wxCmdLineParser has several global options which may be changed by the application. All of the functions described in this section should be called before Parse(). First global option is the support for long (also known as GNU-style) options. The long options are the ones which start with two dashes (@c "--") and look like this: @c --verbose, i.e. they generally are complete words and not some abbreviations of them. As long options are used by more and more applications, they are enabled by default, but may be disabled with DisableLongOptions(). Another global option is the set of characters which may be used to start an option (otherwise, the word on the command line is assumed to be a parameter). Under Unix, @c '-' is always used, but Windows has at least two common choices for this: @c '-' and @c '/'. Some programs also use @c '+'. The default is to use what suits most the current platform, but may be changed with SetSwitchChars() method. Finally, SetLogo() can be used to show some application-specific text before the explanation given by Usage() function. */ /** Identical to @ref enablelongoptions() EnableLongOptions(@false). */ void DisableLongOptions(); /** Enable or disable support for the long options. As long options are not (yet) POSIX-compliant, this option allows to disable them. @see Customization() and AreLongOptionsEnabled() */ void EnableLongOptions(bool enable = true); //@{ /** Returns @true if an option taking a date value was found and stores the value in the provided pointer (which should not be @NULL). */ bool Found(const wxString& name) const; const bool Found(const wxString& name, wxString* value) const; const bool Found(const wxString& name, long* value) const; const bool Found(const wxString& name, wxDateTime* value) const; //@} /** Returns the value of Nth parameter (as string only). */ wxString GetParam(size_t n = 0u) const; /** Returns the number of parameters found. This function makes sense mostly if you had used @c wxCMD_LINE_PARAM_MULTIPLE flag. */ size_t GetParamCount() const; /** After calling Parse() (and if it returned 0), you may access the results of parsing using one of overloaded @c Found() methods. For a simple switch, you will simply call Found() to determine if the switch was given or not, for an option or a parameter, you will call a version of @c Found() which also returns the associated value in the provided variable. All @c Found() functions return @true if the switch or option were found in the command line or @false if they were not specified. */ /** Parse the command line, return 0 if ok, -1 if @c "-h" or @c "--help" option was encountered and the help message was given or a positive value if a syntax error occurred. @param giveUsage If @true (default), the usage message is given if a syntax error was encountered while parsing the command line or if help was requested. If @false, only error messages about possible syntax errors are given, use Usage to show the usage message from the caller if needed. */ int Parse(bool giveUsage = true); /** After the command line description was constructed and the desired options were set, you can finally call Parse() method. It returns 0 if the command line was correct and was parsed, -1 if the help option was specified (this is a separate case as, normally, the program will terminate after this) or a positive number if there was an error during the command line parsing. In the latter case, the appropriate error message and usage information are logged by wxCmdLineParser itself using the standard wxWidgets logging functions. */ //@{ /** Set command line to parse after using one of the constructors which don't do it. */ void SetCmdLine(int argc, char** argv); void SetCmdLine(int argc, wchar_t** argv); void SetCmdLine(const wxString& cmdline); //@} /** Construct the command line description Take the command line description from the wxCMD_LINE_NONE terminated table. Example of usage: */ void SetDesc(const wxCmdLineEntryDesc* desc); /** @a logo is some extra text which will be shown by Usage() method. */ void SetLogo(const wxString& logo); /** @a switchChars contains all characters with which an option or switch may start. Default is @c "-" for Unix, @c "-/" for Windows. */ void SetSwitchChars(const wxString& switchChars); /** Give the standard usage message describing all program options. It will use the options and parameters descriptions specified earlier, so the resulting message will not be helpful to the user unless the descriptions were indeed specified. @see SetLogo() */ void Usage(); };