On Dec 18, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Carl Karsten wrote:
>> Command-line switches are to be discouraged, since 90% of potential
>> users out there run Windows. Yes, I know about cmd.exe and adding
>> switches to shortcut definitions, but most people want to double-
>> click on an icon and have it work.
>
> So can I change this?
>
> # If we are displaying a splash screen, these attributes control
> # its appearance. Extract them before the super call.
> self.showSplashScreen = self._extractKey(kwargs,
> "showSplashScreen", False)
> basepath = os.path.split(dabo.__file__)[0]
> img = os.path.join(basepath, "icons", "daboSplashName.png")
> self.splashImage = self._extractKey(kwargs, "splashImage", img)
> self.splashMaskColor = self._extractKey(kwargs,
> "splashMaskColor", None)
> self.splashTimeout = self._extractKey(kwargs, "splashTimeout",
> 5000)
>
> The change would be to make it more unix like with -O|--
> LongOptionName <value>
> instead of KeyWord <value>
I'm not sure what you're asking. Do you want to make the splash
screen a command line option? That really doesn't make a lot of
sense, since this is something that people will build into their
applications.
-- Ed Leafe
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