Phil. ________________________________________ From: lilypond-devel-bounces+james.lowe=datacore....@gnu.org [lilypond-devel-bounces+james.lowe=datacore....@gnu.org] on behalf of Phil Holmes [m...@philholmes.net] Sent: 02 July 2011 17:28 To: lilypond-devel@gnu.org Subject: lilypond-windows and -dgui
I've written a couple of applications for windows that use lilypond - the first runs lilypond from a small GUI application and displays the output in a window on the form (LilyPond monitor). The second is my regtest pixel comparator. In both cases it took me quite a long time to find out how (using C# .Net) to capture the output from lilypond. In the end I got it working for my monitor, but I've never been able to get it working for the regtest comparator, because it runs 4 threads with a lilypond invocation in each, and I think the output stream the .Net captures is a single one for the whole machine, so the output from each thread is interleaved. Anyway, in an idle moment I remembered that there a 2 exes in the \bin directory - lilypond.exe and lilypond-windows.exe, and I'd never been able to work out what each actually does. I thought one might be able to make the "grab the output" exercise easier, and so I've been experimenting. By default, lilypond.exe (when run from the command line) creates a PDF and sends all output to the cmd window. lilypond-windows.exe runs completely silently (the prompt returns immediately) and all you get is the output file - the PDF. However, if you run lilypond.exe -dgui file.ly, all you get in the command window is the version number - the output goes to file.log - without the version statement. If you run lilypond-windows.exe -dgui file.ly then there is no screen output and you get the same logfile as before. I only found the -dgui by googling for lilypond-windows.exe (although I do remember this option being mentioned to me on one of the lists). Could we get it (and also the function of lilypond-windows.exe) documented - the usage manual would seem the best option? ------ If you can get something rough up on a tracker (I haven't yet gone through my Bug list emails so if you have done this I apologise) and I can perhaps do that for you. I've only got a few hours today and tomorrow eve, and then I'm 'out' until Tuesday, but after that I'll be about as normal. james _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
