spring --help (split: feedback: (spring_94.1.1-354-ga4b114c))

[Jools]

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$ spring --help
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this is available since about 2 years.[/quote]
[img]http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/1750/springd.png[/img]

It doesn't work.

[hoijui]

that is just win fail.
spring shows stuff, but windows does not show it.

you can do something like this:

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$ spring.exe --help > z.txt

then open the newly created file z.txt in a text editor.

edit:
you can also start spring.exe without arguments, and in the menu, choose "Edit Settings", to browse the list of config keys.

[Jools]

you can do something like this:

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$ spring.exe --help > z.txt

then open the newly created file z.txt in a text editor.

Yeah, but it's cumbersome to do that for each time you want to get/pass information to spring. What's the reason? For windows the syntax is normally either:

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help cd
cd /?

That at least works, so why doesn't it work for spring?

[abma]

spring is a win32 application, only console applications can easily print to the console.

this "problem" could be fixed by showing a messagebox.

[Jools]

Yeah, but most windows users don't use windows that way anyway (it's in the name: windows).

One suggeestion though: why not rename script.txt to something like script.spring (or script.spr if you want 3 letter extensions), then you could choose to always open that filetype with spring.exe, which would be convenient.

[abma]

One suggeestion though: why not rename script.txt to something like script.spring (or script.spr if you want 3 letter extensions), then you could choose to always open that filetype with spring.exe, which would be convenient.

drawback is, that it is bound to one specific version of spring, but its still a small benefit.

edit: aah, looking into the code: it should already work. just rename script.txt to .spr and associate with spring.exe.

[Jools]

edit: aah, looking into the code: it should already work. just rename script.txt to .spr and associate with spring.exe.

But isn't script.txt created automagically automatically by the engine? won't it create a file called script.txt anyway next time?

[abma]

script.txt is created by lobbies.