[squeak-dev] startup time command line (or dropped files) arguments

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 01:41:10 UTC 2014


>> Don't "reel in horror" drama-boy.  Squeak's command-line processing is
>> simple and effective.  I use it heavily every day.
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> You might think it less ‘drama-boy’ if I remind you that I have to make this work for around 1.5 million regular users that don’t want to see an error notifier when they use a command line according to the older version. I’m inclined to think that some drama would be nice to avoid here…

Yes, and in case the full bandwidth didn't come thru, please know that
your comment amused me and I was simply playing on it.  I hope you
weren't offended.

> I understand the process you explained and it’s a good way to do things. Nicer still if it were well documented of course - perhaps you could add your explanation to the swiki sometime? And probably as a class comment, come to that.

Okay, done.

  http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6199

> I guess I’ll need to turn off the readDocumentAtStartup pref and manually find any args. That’s really all I needed to know.
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> tim
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