Celestia v1.3.1pre11: Windows command line works

[selden]

Entry corrected on TurkeyDay.
The problems mentioned below are not problems.
They were caused by not remembering the correct commands.

It'd be really nice if Celestia complained instead of doing nothing, however.
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Some of the Windows command line options no longer work for Celestia v1.3.1pre11.

.\celestia -once
does not pass the command line to the running copy of Celestia.
Instead, a second copy of Celestia is started.

.\celestia -c demo.cel
does not pass the name of the script to Celestia.
demo.cel is not run.

This is because the commands are
--once (two hyphens)
and
-u (not -c)

Maybe if I used them more often, I'd remember those not-so-subtle details.

*sigh*

[Harry]

.\celestia -once
does not pass the command line to the running copy of Celestia.
Instead, a second copy of Celestia is started.

Hmm... Did you try "celestia --once" (two dashes)? Can't test myself right now, but according to the source that could be the problem.

[Seems my answer doens't fit the answer anymore, but I'll leave it like that ]

Harald

[selden]

You're right, of course.
Thanks for the reminder.
I hadn't used that feature for quite a while and had forgotten the need of two hyphens.

but "-c" still doesn't work

but "-u" does just fine.

[Harry]

You're right, of course.
Thanks for the reminder.
I hadn't used that feature for quite a while and had forgotten the need of two hyphens.

but "-c" still doesn't work

but "-u" does just fine.

I am not sure where the "-c" is from. The celestia-method which checks the command-line arguments under windows knows about:

--verbose, --fullscreen, --once, --dir and -u

Maybe I missed something, but I think that's all.

Harald

[selden]

Harry,

I can only blame it on brain fade on my part.

I've corrected the first entry above in this thread and updated Preliminary User's FAQ #15 to show the correct command line options.

[chris]

I'll modify Celestia to complain when passed invalid command line arguments.

--Chris

[maxim]

Ok, got it.
So my initial complain in the other thread is obsolete now.
Thank you for verifying and correcting this.