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Resolved application startup runtime options - /debug and others

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  1. mike S
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  3. Thursday, 16 May 2024 21:38 PM UTC

Do we have a full list of the actual startup parameters - including any 'undocumented' ones?

for example: app.exe /debug 

 

I have an application that gets started up to run as a commandline application.  Has been working for a long time (couple of years?) and today it started up in some sort of variation of debug mode.  My guess is that the command line arguments inadvertently contained a PB specific startup parameter.

 

 

Doing a search in help under /debug does not provide a list of command line arguments or really anything.  Is /debug still documented?

 

 

 PB 2023R3 3356

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mike S
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  1. Friday, 17 May 2024 11:41 AM UTC
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these command line values start up in debug mode EVEN IF THEY HAVE OTHER CHARACTERS following them.  In my case -DEB5 was the value that started the application up in debug mode.

-PBD
-DEB

 /PBD
/DEB

 so, PBDug and DEBug do NOT startup the application debug mode, PBD and DEB do. 

PBD starts up with a list of dlls and DEB does not.

 

as per appeon: "the application will only detect the above parameters, no other parameters"

 

i have asked to have a pb.ini runtime option added to have the PB runtime ignore all command line parameters and simply send everything to the application.

 

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mike S
  1. mike S
  2. Friday, 17 May 2024 15:02 PM UTC
in addition, appeon is looking into changing PB so that only PDDEBUG and DEBUG will do anything.
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Chris Pollach @Appeon
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  1. Friday, 17 May 2024 02:17 AM UTC
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Hi Mike;

FYI: https://docs.appeon.com/pb2019/pbug/ch33s08.html

Regards ... Chris

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mike S
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  2. Friday, 17 May 2024 02:54 AM UTC
thanks, that lists /pbdebug



it does not mention /debug



what other hidden ones are there?



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Miguel Leeuwe
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  1. Friday, 17 May 2024 01:15 AM UTC
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Hi Mike,

Is it /PBDEBUG that you're looking for?

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mike S
  1. mike S
  2. Friday, 17 May 2024 02:57 AM UTC


Yes, but /debug also generates a debug file.





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