Command Line Switches

[Rene]

Hi! Is there a listing of available command line switches for when
you start-up the wikgui server?

I saw the one that helps you specify your data path since wikgui
forces you to specify that. But I'd like to be able to specify things
like "also start wiki xyz" or "minimize at startup"...

Are these available?

Thanks! - Rene

[Frank McIngvale]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Rene <linkt...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi!  Is there a listing of available command line switches for when
you start-up the wikgui server?

'wik -h' will show all available options. However, there is not a way to do what you are asking, so lets discuss those ...
 

I saw the one that helps you specify your data path since wikgui
forces you to specify that.  But I'd like to be able to specify things
like "also start wiki xyz" or "minimize at startup"...

The first one is interesting because I run many "topic" wikis and it would be convenient to have a way to start/stop them all at once from the cmdline. So let me think about that one.

On the "minimize at startup" are you talking about minimizing the GUI when running wikgui? If so I can add that.

frank
 

[Rene]

Hi Frank! I'm sure you've got tons of things you'd like to fix, so I
thank you for entertaining these requests!

I put wikgui in the start-up folder of the start menu (I'm on Windows
XP) and I'm just trying to automate its start-up as much as possible.

I'm glad you like the idea of specifying wikis to fire-up upon start -
I think a lot of users actually would find that useful.

As for 'minimize on start-up' I was just thinking if you could get
wikgui to do everything you wanted on start-up (with the right command
line switches), then you don't really need to see the GUI - it can
just do its thing in the background. It could just have a task tray
icon to click on in case you needed to call it up top.

I wasn't sure how to do the 'wik -h' you mentioned. I opened a
command line environment with the windows 'run' dialog, navigated to
the diectory with wikgui.exe in it and tried typing 'wikgui.exe -h'
but nothing happened. Tried typing 'wik -h' too but was told " 'wik'
is not a recognized command ". Maybe that's not the command set for
Windows?

Again thanks very much - Rene


===On Oct 10, 7:46 pm, Frank McIngvale <fmcingv...@gmail.com>
wrote:===

[Frank McIngvale]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Rene <linkt...@gmail.com> wrote:

As for 'minimize on start-up' I was just thinking if you could get
wikgui to do everything you wanted on start-up (with the right command
line switches), then you don't really need to see the GUI - it can
just do its thing in the background.  It could just have a task tray
icon to click on in case you needed to call it up top.

OK yep, that's what I was thinking. That's pretty simple I just need to copy & paste the code from another project to do it :-)
 

I wasn't sure how to do the 'wik -h' you mentioned.  I opened a
command line environment with the windows 'run' dialog, navigated to
the diectory with wikgui.exe in it and tried typing 'wikgui.exe -h'
but nothing happened.  Tried typing 'wik -h' too but was told " 'wik'
is not a recognized command ".  Maybe that's not the command set for
Windows?

'wikgui -h' works too, if you downloaded wikgui instead of wik.

frank