Thread: where's my command line?

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    Hi,

    I'm writing a program in MS Visual C++, using the MFC AppWizzard. I want to be able to pass a command line option to my program when I run it. How can I get to find out what command line the application was passed?

    Cheers,

    Phli Drew.

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    The API function GetCommandLine() will return a pointer to the command line.
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    If you have AppWizard generated application, look into your InitInstance () function, and you will see something like this

    CCommandLineInfo cmdInfo;
    ParseCommandLine (cmdInfo);
    if (!ProcessShellCommand (cmdInfo))
    return FALSE;


    >>> from MSDN help >>>

    1. After being created in InitInstance, the CCommandLineInfo object is passed to ParseCommandLine.

    2. ParseCommandLine then calls CCommandLineInfo::ParseParam repeatedly, once for each parameter.

    3. ParseParam fills the CCommandLineInfo object, which is then passed to ProcessShellCommand.

    4. ProcessShellCommand handles the command-line arguments and flags

    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


    If you want to process your own flags, you must derive a new class from CCommandLineInfo and override its ParseParam () function. There are some options like /p etc. which must be handled.

    See CCommandLineInfo::ParseParam () in the help for more.

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