Re: [Wrapper-user] No args wrapper startup

[Jim R. <jr...@er...>]

Leif,

On 2003.09.24 20:12, Leif Mortenson wrote:
>    What is wrong with having your users double click on a batch file?

I think that it's mainly a personal preference.  It's just slicker to 
have the application start from a "real" executable rather than a batch 
file.

We do have all sorts of fun with console windows when starting with a 
batch file.

There are a some things we do (notably wrapping COM servers) that 
require an executable, not a batch file, but we could work around that.

> That is what most Java applications do and what you would have to do 
> if not using the Wrapper.

It's what we have been doing, and we want to get away from it.

> Making the Wrapper work without any command line arguments would 
> require building a custom binary for each application.  That is how 
> some other tools worked which allowed a java app to be run as an NT 
> service.  One of the many goals of the Wrapper was to make the 
> Wrapper usable without requiring the user to even get close to any C 
> code.

The changes I've been making here will make the default startup 
equivelent to:

appname.exe -c appname.wrapper

So you can rename the wrapper.exe to acheive a no-args startup - no C 
coding required.  I seem to be the only person interested in this which 
is OK (and the beauty of OpenSource).  I'd be happy to send back a 
patch, but if it's just for me I'll just fake the args, which is pretty 
much a hack - so you probably wouldn't want to apply it.

> Jim Redman wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to use the wrapper to start a console application.  But I 
>> need a single executable that the user can click on, that is, no 
>> args passed to the application.
>> 
>> Is this possible without modifications to the c source?
>> 
>> If not, is anyone else interested in this?  My idea would be to have 
>> double-clicking on app.exe be the same as "app -c app.conf" if app.
>> conf exists.  Jim
>> 
>> PS Apologies if this is a repeat - I didn't get a copy of the 
>> original and it's not in the archive.
>> 
> 
> 
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