[Gambas-user] What's the best way to determine how a project was invoked?

[adamnt42 at ...626...]

On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 22:35:24 +0100
Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...> wrote:

> Le 09/01/2016 22:28, adamnt42 at ...626... a écrit :
> > We have a set of "tools" that we use with Gambas. They are generally
> > stand alone and are invoked "by hand" and at startup the user selects
> > the Gambas source project to "attach" to. Now I want to provide some
> > integration between them, i.e. allow Tool_B to be invoked from a
> > Tool_A menu or button.  In that case, I want to pass a context, i.e.
> > the source project that is attached in Tool_A.
> >
> > What I want to determine is what's the best way to find out, in
> > Tool_B "how I was invoked".
> >
> > Currently I think that using gb.Args and passing a specific flag
> > option to indicate that has been invoked from another tool (I can
> > test that with Args.Has).
> >
> > But I'm not sure that this is really the "best" way.  Any thoughts?
> >
> > regards bruce
> >
> 
> What's the problem with passing arguments to a program ? There is just a 
> limit on the total size in bytes of the arguments. Run "xargs 
> --show-limits" to get it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Benoît Minisini
> 
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OK, I just had a feeling...

On another tack, the gb.Args Args class help page contains the line:
"Return non-options as arguments."

What does that mean?

regards
bruce
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