Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Mechanism to build in command line help into the flowgraph?

[Monahan-Mitchell, Tim]

>> The above text would be entered someplace on the flowgraph in GRC, 
>> like maybe the description field in the Options block. Then output of 
>> that text to stdout is triggered by a selectable Short ID from a 
>> parameter block on the flowgraph, or maybe is always hard coded to an 
>> option like "--help"?

> So you should get the --help for free when the flow graph is generated.

Thanks, I didn't know that. I tried it, it does tell you a list of the 
parameters and types.

> I think whats missing for your case is that the parameter block doesnt have a 
> entry field for a custom help message per parameter.

> I would add a help entry field for the parameter.xml block and the support in 
> the flowgraph.tmpl for the help message. Right now the help message is 
> autogenerated I think to just say something generic/

Thanks - perhaps for a rainy day!

- Tim