I remember there was a bug for this somewhere, but I can't seem to find it in bugzilla anymore. If I recall correctly, there's no easy way to do this now, but I think the next release might have something. Try searching bugzilla... Samuel
On 3/13/07, Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James > > Thanks for the example. I think it shows I wasn't clear in my initial > message because if I run the example (I stripped-out the libnotify stuff > as it wasn't on my system): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/netperf4_gobject$ /tmp/example --help > Usage: > example [OPTION...] - APCUPSD Commandline Notification Utility GPL2 > [2007] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Help Options: > -?, --help Show help > options > > Application Options: > -t, --title=Uninterruptible Power Supply Title text > on msg box > -m, --message=message Message > body text > -i, --icon-name=gtk-dialog-info ...-warning ...-error icon to > include next to message > -s, --show-seconds=10 seconds to > display message > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/netperf4_gobject$ /tmp/exmaple --bogus > -bash: /tmp/exmaple: No such file or directory > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/netperf4_gobject$ /tmp/example --bogus > > ** (example:9372): WARNING **: Parse command line failed: Unknown option > --bogus > > What I am after is some way to display the same text as --help when one > uses a bogus command-line option. In other words I don't just want to > tell them that --bogus is a bogus option, I want to tell them what the > non-bogus options are. Since --help already does that, I was looking > for a call I could make to cause that same text to be emitted - rather > like one would used to do with a hand-built "usage string." Now that > the g_option_mumble stuff is emitting the equivalent to a usage string > for --help I want to use that rather than build a second one in parallel. > > rick jones > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
