On windows, show message box with help, as there is no stderr (fixes #702) #857

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  1. laanwj commented at 4:57 PM on February 17, 2012: member

    (title says it all)

  2. On windows, show message box with help, as there is no stderr (fixes #702) bc5e6b9f21
  3. gavinandresen commented at 6:59 PM on February 17, 2012: contributor

    ACK

  4. sipa commented at 1:14 AM on February 18, 2012: member

    I think it's a bit strange that the windows version would show a message box, while on other operating systems an error is printed to stderr. Very few people run a GUI from a terminal that remains open anyway.

  5. laanwj commented at 8:05 AM on February 18, 2012: member

    @sipa: I'm simply mimicing the behaviour of most programs... On linux, people expect --help output in the terminal (which can be copied, piped, redirected, etc). On windows they expect a message box (as there is no other way).

    I really don't like the message box to be the default.

  6. sipa commented at 5:25 PM on February 19, 2012: member

    Ok, nevermind.

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