Re: Command line style switch for MFC GUI app?

From:

"AliR $VC++ MVP$" <AliR@online.nospam>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:41:13 -0600

Message-ID:

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There are a couple of ways of doing this:

You can call GetCommandLine() and parse it from there

or you an derive a class from CCommandLineInfo and overwrite the ParseParam
method and do it there:
http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=386406

A quick google of "MFC CommandLine parameter" will give you tons of results.
AliR.

"Moschops" <moschops@notvalid.com> wrote in message
news:tIqdnabSEZmtwoXUnZ2dnUVZ8i6dnZ2d@brightview.com...

I have inherited a large MFC app. I want to add an option to dump the log,
which currently goes to a console window, to a file. The code to do this is
written and works fine. However, it is important that the option to do so
is not presented to a standard user (the app is already in use and changes
to the interface are to be avoided if possible - the end users are very
time-constrained in their actions, reacting to events in real-time, and
adding buttons etc. just confuses them!) . As such, I'd like it to be
triggered by the command calling the application.

In essence, some kind of command line switch along the lines of:

"bigProcess.exe" for normal users, logging t oconsole, and

"bigProcess.exe -a" for logging to file.

I've no idea how to do this - I've had a poke at the CCommandLineInfo
object but I'm not quite sure what I'm doing with it. Any explanation of
how to go about this would be appreciated.

'Chops