16.19Command line options

It is possible to call QW-Simulator from a command line with parameters. This feature is prepared for use with i.e. optimisers. QWED offers its own QW-OptimiserPlus, integrated with QW-Simulator. However, interested users may also try to couple QuickWave with their own optimising procedures. Command line options of QW-Simulator may be very helpful in such operation.

Below we list the available options. Unless otherwise specified, file_name denotes the name of a *.ta3, *.pa3 or *.sfr file, and its full path must be specified:

·       -h/? – starts the QW-Simulator, printing the description of available options in the Simulator Log window.

·       -s file_name – starts the QW-Simulator, also performing File-Open and Run‑Start commands on the file of specified name file_name.

·       -c file_name – starts the QW-Simulator, also performing File-Open and Run‑Create commands on the file of specified name file_name.

·       -t file_name – starts the QW-Simulator, also performing File-Open and Run‑Start commands on the file of specified name file_name. However it does not open any application window. The user has no interaction possibilities, and also any graphical commands within in the tasker will be ignored. Thus for reasonable operation, this option should be used with a tasker file (*.ta3), and the tasker file should contain saving results commands, e.g. Save_S_Results, Save_Antenna_Results, etc.

·       -v – starts the QW-Simulator, printing the version number in the Simulator Log window.

·       -d – starts the QW-Simulator, printing the licence date expiration and version limitations in the Simulator Log window.

·       -l – locates the HASP dongle

-              -l1 – enforces link to the local QW HASP dongle

-              -l3 – enforces link of the network QW HASP dongle

·       -o quiet_opt_option – starts the QW-Simulator in quiet mode (all warnings and errors are saved to the simwarnexit.txt file)

·       -i – starts minimised QW-Simulator application

·       -g – controls the graphic card used by the QW-Simulator GPU. The card preference number (number of the card in GPU queue specified in Preferences dialogue) is defined as parameter after space, e.g. “-g 2”. This option requires GPU queue in Preferences dialogue to be explicitly defined.

See also General: Running in command line regime for more information.