[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2784) UI options / help text

["ChrisK@xxxxxxxx via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:26:55PM -0800, Jason Short via RT wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 12:32, ChrisK@xxxxxxxx via RT wrote:
> > 
> > CVS 08 JAN 2003 Gtk 1.2
> > 
> > Options /not/ passed to UI?
> > 
> > chris@max:~> LANG= civclient --help
> > Usage: civclient [option ...]
> > Valid options are:
> >   -a, --autoconnect     Skip connect dialog
> >   -d, --debug NUM       Set debug log level (0 to 3)
> >   -h, --help            Print a summary of the options
> >   -l, --log FILE        Use FILE as logfile
> >   -m, --meta HOST       Connect to the metaserver at HOST
> >   -n, --name NAME       Use NAME as name
> >   -p, --port PORT       Connect to server port PORT
> >   -P, --Plugin PLUGIN   Use PLUGIN for sound output [none, esd]
> >   -s, --server HOST     Connect to the server at HOST
> >   -S, --Sound FILE      Read sound tags from FILE
> >   -t, --tiles FILE      Use data file FILE.tilespec for tiles
> >   -v, --version         Print the version number
> >       --                Pass any following options to the UI.
> >                         Try "civclient -- --help" for more.
> > 
> > chris@max:~> LANG= civclient -- --help
> > Report bugs to <bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
> 
> What is the bug here?
> 
> civclient --help does what you'd expect it to.
> 
> The UI accepts --help also.  I think this was supposed to print the UI
> help text after the rest of the help.  But this never worked since
> freeciv just exits after printing the help text.  So originally the UI
> options would never be shown; now they're shown by "civclient --
> --help".
> 
> It seems to me that "civclient --help" should print out the UI options
> as well.  To get this there should be a ui_print_help() or similar
> function that can be called when --help is specified.

Ah, may be I did misunderstand this. I mixed it up with X options.

What kind of UI options can be set?

Christian

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