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QuestionRuning the MFC program in Silent Mode. Pin
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Avi Berger19-Feb-10 11:50
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I would agree that some things would be more effective with a command line entry. GUIs are popular, habit forming, and not necessarily the best way to get things done.

My concern is in my (perhaps wrong) interpretation of silent as totally silent. From a console you at least get the feedback of the next command prompt without a "command not found" error to let you know something was done and completed. A "somefile processed" message as well would be nice if provided.

I have had some occasion to do general end-user support. When responding I was imagining how some people I have dealt with would react to this. In a GUI environment, they would expect a visual response to their action and would not check documentation for this. I was seeing one of them in my mind double clicking on an icon - nothing happens. (A shortcut can be set up to include command line params) Repeat several times. Call for help, "This software doesn't work". This is exactly how several people I've dealt with would react.

Actually, I would want some feedback myself to know that the task was completed. Something could have gone wrong or I might have made an entry error. Let me try to improve my response as follows:

This can be a useful, good idea in the right circumstances, but consider being automatic, but not totally silent. Consider providing a progress indicator display or an "I did it" dialog. The dialog can even be self closing after a time-out.

Anyway, that's my thoughts. Make any sense?
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