Re: Command line arguments

[Steve Emsley]

>>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus G Daniels <address@hidden> writes:

    SE> and how do I recover the value of the command line parameter
    SE> since parseKey simply returns an int.

    Marcus> You can store the values in instance variables of your
    Marcus> Arguments subclass.

In main.m I have:

  apexArgs = [APEXArguments createBegin: globalZone];
  initSwarmArguments(argc, argv, [APEXArguments class]);

which works. I get a new option as defined in the createBegin method
of the subclassed Arguments class. I'm using pretty much the same code
as your example so the instance variable protocolArg should hold a
string (a parameter file name). If I printf the argument within the
subclassed parseKey:arg: method I get the filename output as expected.

However, I've tried to access the instance variable, protocolArg using
[apexArgs getProtocolArg] and it returns (Null),  or (nil) if I print
it as a pointer. Also I when I try to access the superclass variables
such as getArgc, getAppName or getBatchModeFlag I get the Null values.

I can retrieve the parameter from argv if required.

Cheers, Steve
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