command line options while debugging console app?

General
1

I want to set the args() parameter in the Run method prior to execution from the debugger.
So lets say I wanted
c:\>myConsole myfile.txt >output.log

How would I test this in the IDE?

2

Highlight “Shared” in the project manager (listing on left side) and look in the Inspector.

3

So >log is the destination?

4

No, it all goes into the Command Line Arguments right above it.

5

But “>output.log” isn’t a command line argument. I mean, it doesn’t get passed to the program. It is used by the OS to redirect stdout. Does it still go into the Command Line Arguments field?

6

Yes. Xojo is starting the app using a command line command. In Unix, that’s /path/to/app.debug.app. Xojo takes whatever is in that field and tacks it onto the command so it comes out exactly as if that’s the way you had typed it in the Terminal.

7

Cool.

8

I guess I just don’t understand how Xojo knows if >log is a parameter to be put into args() vs something that is not part of args.
cheers.

9

Xojo doesn’t know or care. It just sends it to the command line as entered, exactly the same as if you were launching an app from the terminal.