Automate dialog app

[grahamr (work)]

I would like one our applications to run silently, however it usually relies on user interaction to click the task you want to run etc. To complicate matters the tasks communicate with another machine asynchronously.

I got the headless part working by faking the dialogs but everything I try ends with DoModal. The app was designed around the interactivity but I now need it run without.

Any ideas?

Thanks, G.

[GCDEF]

Create an instance of the dialog but don't call DoModal(). Just call the appropriate members of the dialog using the instance you created.

[kavitesh]

To automate use the command line options if i am understanding your problem correctly.

[grahamr (work)]

To automate use the command line options if i am understanding your problem correctly.

It's the internals of actually controlling the app which is the problem.

[grahamr (work)]

Create an instance of the dialog but don't call DoModal(). Just call the appropriate members of the dialog using the instance you created.

Would that work? I never tried that.

In the end I created a thread that is launched at the app start. The app passes messages to the thread and the thread acts on them in a state machine if "-silent" message is passed in.

Works quite well so far. Just modifying the logging to use the message system - might as well use the thread in quiet moments for that...