On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 12:26 +0200, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote: > > > >> well, technically, the fact that stdout and stderr go into the abyss > >> for GUI apps, doesn't mean we *can't* pipe them where we want to. > >> i simply didn't understand the need for it. i guess i can be useful to > >> gather debug information from users, if instructed to pass an extra > >> argument. > >> > >> 1) we add the -win32console command line argument that is a NOP on > >> other platforms > >> 2) users can add it when calling the exe from the terminal or from a > >> desktop shortcut > >> 3) it pipes our output to a dedicated terminal (created on the fly) or > >> to the starting terminal process
Yes, except don't pipe it to a terminal but instead into a QMessageWindow or something like that. > >> a bit confused with the whole GSOC idea thing and if a student should > >> take this, but i can certainly write this one quickly... > >> around 30 LOC of a patch. Exactly. Which is why I thought one of the students trying to fulfill the two patch requirement could implement this. > > my impression was that the suggested solution is not to add anything to the > > source but change the build process for Windows such that the option is set > > to keep the connection with the terminal for STDOUT and STDERR. I remember > > seeing a stack overflow page describing it. Alternatively the flag could be > > set in the resulting binary. But I haven’t used windows in a while. What we > > don’t want is to open a console window with every start (as a GUI program) > > of subsurface. > > > > i use this ATM: > qmake "config += CONSOLE" > > which basically makes subsurface a console application and it always > has a console (stderr/stdout are visible there) even if started from a > desktop shortcut. > so what we can do is create a separate += CONSOLE installer for > windows, but this is more work for dirk. this is the only solution > without source code changes that i can see. No, that's not the goal. Having a separate installer that people need to download and install instead of just a command line flag... that's silly. /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.hohndel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
