Does wxFormbuilder supported command line based code generation?

[pvkarthikk]

I am using wxFormbuilder for my project. I am trying to setup the batch command to build my project. My friend used to create gui and I have to generate and use the code. For now, I am opening the builder and generting the code everytime, when he commits.
So, i want to know, is there way to generate code without opening the wxFormbuilder?

[SpareSimian]

If you run the program from the command line with /h, you'll get this output:

C:\Program Files\wxFormBuilder>.\wxFormBuilder.exe -h

C:\Program Files\wxFormBuilder>15:30:24: Usage: wxFormBuilder [/g] [/l <str>] [/h] [/v] [File to open.]
  /g, --generate              Generate code from passed file.
  /l, --language=<str>        Override the code_generation property from the passed file and generate the passed languages. Separate multiple languages with commas.
  /h, --help                  Show this help message.
  /v, --version               Print version information.

[pvkarthikk]

@SpareSimian Thanks for your response :)
I tried with 3.10.1 and 3.9.0, I didnt get that help message. May I know, which version are you using?

[SpareSimian]

On 12/9/2022 8:28 PM, Karthik Venkatesh wrote: I tried with 3.10.0 and 3.9.0, I didnt get that help message. May I know, which version are you using?

With -v I get "wxFormBuilder 3.10.1-0-g8feb16b3", so I'd guess somewhat later than 3.10.1. (The stuff on the end is the git commit after that tag.)

[adisoc]

I was not able to get the command line options to appear either on Windows 10. I tried the last release (3.10.1), an older release (3.8.1) and the latest artifact from master (19bcc29).

Edit: It appears to work in 19bcc29 but silently - a noname.py file is created with I try to generate a Python file. The expected command line output is visible only when run from a MINGW64 prompt but not from a standard Windows command prompt (CMD.exe).

[sodevel]

The issue here is, under Windows an application must be marked as either console application or GUI application. wxFB is marked as GUI application. I am not an expert in this field, but i know that windows does not allocate a console for GUI applications, hence they cannot output text through e.g. stdout. Apparently this behavior seems to be controlled by the launching "terminal", cmd.exe behaves like this, the MinGW shell apparently not and allocates a console even for GUI applications.