I am looking for a command line parser for Qt4.
I did a small google search, and found this: http://www.froglogic.com/pg?id=PublicationsFreeware&category=getopt however it lacks support for "--enable-foo" and "--disable-foo" switches. Besides that, it looks like a real winner.
EDIT:
It seems Frologic removed this. So the best options I see are using Boost (which is not API nor ABI stable) or forking the support for kdelibs. Yay...
A really simple method is to scan "key=value" args,
put them in a table say zz.map: QString -> QVariant,
and get their values with zz.map.value( key, default ).
An example:
#include "ztest.h"
Ztest zz;
int main( int argc, char* argv[] )
{
zz.eqargs( ++ argv ); // scan test=2 x=str ... to zz.map
QString xx = zz.map.value( "xx", "" );
if( Zint( Size, 10 )) // a #def -> zz.map.value( "Size", 10 )
...
ztest.h is < 1 page, below; same for Python ~ 10 lines.
(Everybody has his/her favorite options parser;
this one's about the simplest.
Worth repeating: however you specify options, echo them to output files --
"every scientist I know has trouble keeping track
of what parameters they used last time they ran a script".)
To make QPoints etc work one of course needs a QString -> QPoint parser. Anyone know offhand why this doesn't work (in Qt 4.4.3) ?
QPoint pt(0,0);
QDataStream s( "QPoint(1,2)" );
s >> pt;
qDebug() << "pt:" << pt; // QPoint(1364225897,1853106225) ??
Added 25nov --
// ztest.h: scan args x=2 s=str ... to a key -> string table
// usage:
// Ztest ztest;
// int main( int argc, char* argv[] )
// {
// QApplication app( argc, argv );
// ztest.eqargs( ++ argv ); // scan leading args name=value ...
// int x = Zint( x, 10 ); // arg x= or default 10
// qreal ff = Zreal( ff, 3.14 );
// QString s = Zstr( s, "default" );
// care: int misspelled = Zint( misspellled ) -- you lose
//version: 2009-06-09 jun denis
#ifndef ztest_h
#define ztest_h
#include <QHash>
#include <QString>
#include <QVariant>
#include <QRegExp>
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
class Ztest {
public:
QHash< QString, QVariant > map;
int test; // arg test=num, if( ztest.test )
Ztest() : test( 0 ) {}
QVa