5.5 Command line operations
This chapter describes the ways to start instances of
MetaEdit+ by utilizing the command line parameters and operations. The basic
version of MetaEdit+ carries only a small set of command line parameters
providing the operations for filing in patches and setting up the optional
second monitor. Command line parameter
support for
advanced operations is supplied in API add-on – for more information about
these parameters and operations see ‘MetaEdit+ Workbench User’s
Guide’.
The following table summarizes the command line parameters
available in standard version of MetaEdit+ users and their usage:
|
Command
|
Usage
|
fileInPatch: |
Files in an image, type or model
patch (*.pat)
|
fileInPatches |
File in patches named in file
patches.txt in either this directory or subdirectory patches (path names can be
absolute or relative to patches.txt), or then file in all *.pat files in
subdirectory patches
|
monitor2left:top:width:height: |
Set a second monitor position (top
left of 2nd monitor measured from top left of 1st monitor)
and size. For two 1600x1200 monitors, the arguments would be 1600 0 1600
1200
|
All the commands have the same structure: the first parameter
is a command name. The command name shows how many arguments it expects
according to the number of colons in the name: fileInPatches expects no
arguments, fileInPatch: expects one argument, and monitor2left:top:width:height:
expects four arguments. Note that for commands that expect arguments, there are
no spaces in the command name, and the last character is always a colon. After a
command name expecting N arguments, the next N parameters on the command line
will be used as those arguments.
As an example, consider the following command line that
would file in foo.mep patch file and
setup a second 1600x1200 monitor at the MetaEdit+ start-up:
mep4.exe fileInPatch: foo.mep monitor2left:top:width:height: 1600 0 1600 1200
Here,
mep4.exe is the name of the MetaEdit+
program executable. The first parameter given to the executable is
fileInPatch: with its arguments
foo.mep. The second argument,
monitor2left:top:width:height:, follows
then with its four arguments.
