[kepler-dev] Determine whether -nogui was specified

[ben leinfelder]

You can also interrogate the MessageHandler implementation to check if  
it is using the GUI one. Again, very hackish.
-ben

On Aug 12, 2009, at 9:50 AM, David Welker wrote:

> There is no really good way to do this at present.
>
> If -nogui passed in as an argument, then that affects what is called  
> (either org.kepler.KeplerConfigurationApplication or  
> ptolemy.moml.MoMLCommandLineApplication) but unfortunately the fact  
> that -nogui was passed in is not otherwise stored.
>
> A hackish way to detect whether new -nogui was passed in that should  
> work (I haven't tried it) would be to examine the current stack  
> trace and see if either of the following is present.
>
> org.kepler.KeplerConfigurationApplication.main(String[] args)
>
> OR
>
> ptolemy.moml.MoMLCommandLineApplication(String[] args)
>
> One of these classes is called if and only if -nogui was passed in  
> as a command-line argument.
>
> What are you trying to accomplish? Should we make it more convenient  
> to determine whether -nogui has been passed in on the command line?
>
> -David
>
>
>
> On Aug 12, 2009, at 2:38 AM, Michal Owsiak wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I want to check within the actor's fire() method whether Kepler was
>> started with "-nogui" argument. Is it possible to determine whether  
>> this
>> switch was used during Kepler execution? How this information can be
>> retrieved?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Michal
>>
>> -- 
>> Michal Owsiak <michalo at man.poznan.pl>
>> Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
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