https://github.com/eliahkagan/showargsw

Show arguments in a Windows message box
https://github.com/eliahkagan/showargsw

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Show arguments in a Windows message box

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/eliahkagan/showargsw
• Owner: EliahKagan
• License: 0bsd
• Created: 2024-07-15T06:27:09.000Z (4 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-20T21:55:31.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-21T20:39:41.087Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Rust
• Size: 15.6 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# showargsw - Show args in a Windows message box

This program shows its command-line arguments in a Windows message box.

## Details

Even though message boxes are graphical, this builds as a command-line application and receives its arguments through the usual Windows parsing rules automatically. (Unlike other systems, on Windows command-line arguments are passed as a single string that has to be parsed, though this often happens behind the scenes, e.g., in a C program it happens before `main` is called.)

This is meant as a diagnostic tool and its uses overlap with the very simple program [`showargs`](https://github.com/EliahKagan/showargs). If you're on Windows, and you don't have a console or it's not convenient to look at console output, or you want to be immediately informed that your application has called an executable at a particular path, this may be preferable.

For simplicity this currently only shows a message box, but that is not ideal because message boxes do not allow text selection. They do, however, allow their entire contents to be copied by pressing Ctrl+C while the message box has focus. (This is a feature of Windows message boxes, not specifically of this little program.)

## License

[0BSD](LICENSE)