Ed Leafe wrote:
> 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? 

Oh, I thought kwargs came from the command line.  I can leave this in place and 
add the command line switch stuff.

> That really doesn't make a lot of  
> sense, since this is something that people will build into their  
> applications.

It is nice to be able to turn off the splash with a command line switch.

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