Re: CCommandLineInfo and MFC GUI

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:45:50 -0700
Message-ID:
<B2BE66BC-DC94-41ED-8198-9F5FD54119D4@microsoft.com>
Another way to do this sort of thing would be to hide the main window if you
don't want a GUI, but still have it be created. That way all the plumbing
gets done either way. You could hide the window in the mainframes
OnShowWindow() function. Or, you could just run it iconized to allow the
user to see that something is happening and allow them to pop up the GUI
even in the /nogui execution if they want.

Tom

"one-trick-pony" <worldofpain.aamir@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1181780622.814608.242130@a26g2000pre.googlegroups.com...

Greetings,

I am trying to write an MFC-based application which can be run via
command line.

It should not pop up GUI if following line is executed:

C:\>myapp.exe /nogui

It should execute normally when following line is executed:

C:\>myapp.exe

I am able to parse command line arguments using CCommanLineInfo
class. If user executes the program from command prompt with /nogui
option then application should run code and it should pop up messages
as to its progress and never the main program GUI. After it has done
executing code it should gracefully exit. Need some pointers on how
to properly accomplish this. Thanks.

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