Command Line – Standard Argument List

The Tester class still contains functions that have an argument or return value that is a QString or QStringList that need to be changed.  The first of these functions modified was the constructor that had a string list argument for the command line arguments.  These arguments come from the Command Line constructor, which in turn is passed from the Main Window constructor that obtains them from the  Qt application instance.

The Main Window constructor was modified to convert the QStringList arguments to a standard list of standard strings.  There are Qt functions for converting lists and strings to the standard equivalents, but there is no function for converting a string list.  A simple for each loop was added to iterate through the argument list and add (emplace back) to a standard list converting each element to a standard string.  This list is then passed (moved) to the command line constructor.

The Command Line constructor was modified to convert the first argument (the program path name) to a base file name and store it into the program name member (which was changed to a std::string).  This first element is removed from the list.  The rest of the constructor was modified to treat this list and a std::list with one less element.  The is version output and is help option functions were modified similarly.  The program name access function was removed since there were no callers.

The Tester constructor was modified to take the program name and argument list (less program path) as separate arguments.  The program name is used as the initializer of the program name member and the rest of the constructor was modified to treat this list and a std::list with one less element.

A minor bug was also discovered and corrected in the translate input function of the Tester class where the header argument was not being output when it was present.  The bug was recently added when the RPN list text function was changed to a standard put stream operator function.

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