18/6/25

Nice and sunny again....

Parsing commandline parameters

Have decided, after positive advise of the Gemini colleague, to use JSON for parameter passing between UI and engine at one side, and engine and proxies as well.

Added files are commandLineParameters.h and cpp and are in Library/utility

Engine

Overview of parameters (cfr )

Name	Type	Default	Comment
tcpport	int	40000
hide	bool	true
configurationfile	string	""
testuuid	int64	0
loadMemory	bool	false
projectname	string	""
projectuuid	int64	0
numcycles	int	30

Proxies

For proxies we only have the TCP port number and if the console should be shown or not.

Show/Hide/Quit

The proxies are already configured to respond to these messges

    driver->Subscribe(*TCPServer.GetMessageResponder(), TAG_COMMAND_QUIT,
                      [&bContinueLoop](const CTrack::Message &) -> CTrack::Reply
                      {
                          bContinueLoop = false;
                          return nullptr;
                      });

    driver->Subscribe(*TCPServer.GetMessageResponder(), TAG_COMMAND_SHOW,
                      [&bContinueLoop](const CTrack::Message &) -> CTrack::Reply
                      {
                          SetConsoleVisible(true);
                          return nullptr;
                      });

    driver->Subscribe(*TCPServer.GetMessageResponder(), TAG_COMMAND_HIDE,
                      [&bContinueLoop](const CTrack::Message &) -> CTrack::Reply
                      {
                          SetConsoleVisible(false);
                          return nullptr;
                      });

Template and Vicon are up to date, Leica.LMF needs updating

In order to subscribe in the same way in the engine, we need a subscriber derived object. On the UI and the engine this is StateManager.

The command line parameters were chopped up at the receiving side. This was solved by adding a static CommandLineParameters::generateCommandLineArgument which adds the necessary extra quoting.

Regarding the showing/hiding of a console, this remains a true nightmare. What I would like: if I hide it it dissappears from the desktop and the taskbar, if I show it, it comes back on desktop and taskbar and shows all previous text. 

Apparantly not possible by Microschoft standards, so we need to destroy the console, ok, we loose the text, and create a new console for showing.