On 02/05/2016 01:01 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

 > Another way is to set the visible of the stack to false. Another way
 > is to set the location of the stack to somewhere off screen.

With all due respect to Mr. Wieder, I never use that option.  One of the
great things about running LC facelessly is the blinding boot speed, but
when it needs to init the UI stuff it takes much longer. Launching from
the command line with -ui bypasses the UI init, but simply hiding it
makes for a normal GUI init process.

If the process will stay resident the time difference probably doesn't
matter, but when using standalones in a time-sensitive context such as
CGI (where the engine is launched, runs, and dies with each request)
it'll matter more.

Yep. Good point.

For my purposes, the startup time is not noticeable and pales in comparison with the sluggishness of communicating with the QuickBooks application. LC is in the mix because of the ease of creating and parsing xml trees. This would have been a nightmare in C++.

Do note, however, that I could still use the -ui commandline option along with hiding the stack during startup to take advantage of the shorter boot time if needed.

--
 Mark Wieder
 ahsoftw...@gmail.com

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