Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Udo Richter wrote: >> While we're at --help and plugins: >> There is no way how a plugin can detect whether it was loaded >> regularly or just for displaying --help or --version. In the latter >> cases, ProcessArgs() will be called with empty parameters and cannot >> fail because it is missing a parameter. If it does fail, VDR stops >> loading plugins and shows --help and --version only for plugins loaded >> before the failed one. >> >> (do we need to call ProcessArgs() at all for --help/--version?) > > What's the point in adding -P parameters to a 'vdr --help' > call, anyway? Exactly my point... Ok, an example. Load plugin foo, with parameter REQUIRED: > vdr -P "foo REQUIRED" This works. This is supposed to not work: > vdr -P "foo" error: foo requires an argument But then this doesn't work either: > vdr --version vdr (1.3.45) - The Video Disk Recorder error: foo requires an argument Cheers, Udo
