Re: Command line options in EPIC (Perl + Eclipse)

The description ("3. If you wish to pass command-line parameters to the script or to the Perl interpreter, enter them in the Arguments tab.") doesn't sound too cryptic to me. I don't have EPIC installed, but from the description I'd expect to see two textfields/-areas in the arguments tab... one for your script, and one for Perl itself.

So, I'm wondering what happens with any arguments you enter there? Are they simply being ignored, or what? Seems like basic functionality... if it in fact doesn't work, my inclination to spend more time with the tool would vastly decrease :)

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Re^2: Command line options in EPIC (Perl + Eclipse) by dHarry (Abbot) on Feb 25, 2009 at 12:48 UTC
I don't have EPIC installed, but from the description I'd expect to see two textfields/-areas... Your expectations are quite right;-) One area to enter the command line arguments for your program, one area to enter the arguments for Perl. It works quite well and both on Windows and Linux. There are more advanced options and other tabs in this dialog box though. So, I'm wondering what happens with any arguments you enter there? Seems like basic functionality... It * is * basic functionality and it works as expected, i.e. the arguments are passed to Perl and the script respectively. It works fine in practice though frankly speaking there is no need to use this functionality. Both on Windows and Linux the command line is more flexible. The only advantage I can think of is that you don't have to switch to another Window if you work from Eclipse/EPIC. It does give some nice other features.	[reply]

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Re^2: Command line options in EPIC (Perl + Eclipse)
by dHarry (Abbot) on Feb 25, 2009 at 12:48 UTC

I don't have EPIC installed, but from the description I'd expect to see two textfields/-areas...

Your expectations are quite right;-) One area to enter the command line arguments for your program, one area to enter the arguments for Perl. It works quite well and both on Windows and Linux. There are more advanced options and other tabs in this dialog box though.

So, I'm wondering what happens with any arguments you enter there? Seems like basic functionality...

It * is * basic functionality and it works as expected, i.e. the arguments are passed to Perl and the script respectively. It works fine in practice though frankly speaking there is no need to use this functionality. Both on Windows and Linux the command line is more flexible. The only advantage I can think of is that you don't have to switch to another Window if you work from Eclipse/EPIC. It does give some nice other features.

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