use all the options of Ellié Computing Merge from command line?
Ellié Computing Merge is so rich that it is not
reasonable to give access to all the options through command
line parameters (with - or -- notation).
Nonetheless Ellié Computing Merge lets you access all
of its options through scripting and you can script the command
line both before the document is loaded and after any save or
export command happen.
There are two groups of scripts: pre loading scripts
(--pdl-script group of options) and post writing scripts
(--script group of options). Pre loading scripts are executed
just after the command line constitute the documents parameters
and before the documents gets loaded. Post writing scripts are
run after the export or save command if any.
This script shows an important point: you cannot modify
Document.parameters sub-objects directly (why? because doing so
would guide you into modifying members individually which would
then result in execrable performances). This is the reason for
the params variable.
Then it presents you with two technics:
First it uses SerializableObject.set_xml (implemented by
OptionsSet), the params.settings.set_xml()
sets many options at a time, it is good choice if you have
dozens of options to set, but it will also set all
the options which may not be perfect for your usage.
Then it uses direct scripting with params.left.output = true; , you
can use all the OptionsSet and Document.Parameters members,
and make scripts as complex as needed to obtain the settings
that you want.
Note that this sample uses --pdl-script-text, it could also
use --pdl-script=script_filename.js which is particularly
useful if the script is larger.
