NOTE:
If you have no wish to run AlbumEasy from the command line, you can safely ignore this section.
AlbumEasy may be run from the console as a command line application by means of the -c command line argument.
In order to do so the -c command line argument should followed by the name of the album data file e.g.:
./AlbumEasy -c examples/AlbumSample.txt
Error messages are written to stderr, in which case they may be captured to a text file as follows:
./AlbumEasy -c examples/AlbumSample.txt 2>errs.txt
For further information on console mode, please refer to readme-console.txt
Note 1: AlbumEasy uses the same configuration settings for both console and GUI modes.
So to make any changes to the configuration it is necessary to do so in GUI mode by means of the
the configuration dialogue box.
It is also necessary to run the application in GUI mode in order to access the help files.
Note 2: Console mode is functional on both Windows and Linux.
However when running on Windows, a Windows shortcoming prevents a dual mode application from displaying
text in the console.
As a result, although the application is functional in console mode on Windows, the user will
not see any status or error messages.
To get around this, it is suggested that an alternative console such as the one provided by
Cygwin be installed on Windows.