Command Line

[techperson1]

Can someone please explain the command line to me, (What it is, how it works) I accidently made my screen res way too high on MegaGlest and it makes it so I can't even change it in the options (the apply button was not on the screen) Any help would be really appreciated.

[tomreyn]

Hi,

how to get a command line depends much on your operating system. The FAQ has some information on this (in an otherwise unrelated topic). On OS X (not discussed on the wiki) there should be some software available which is called "Terminal" which gives you a command line prompt.

I was recently in touch with someone running OS X who had a related question (maybe this was you) about accessing the MegaGlest INI files, which did not work for him, probably because those are now hidden.

[techperson1]

I found the Application Support, but MegaGlest isn't there, could you explain what I should do in terminal? Thanks. (Yes, I am the person you were in contact with)

[tomreyn]

Hmm, I was convinced it'd be there. Sadly supporting the operating system you have chosen to use is difficult since it's not exactly developer friendly (for example a developer who wants to support it is not allowed to run it in  virtual machine even after buying a license) so it's hard to support it...

[techperson1]

So what do you suggest I do?

[tomreyn]

Well there's still the option of running the game with command line options. Try --help for a list of ll available options, then pick the ones you like.

[techperson1]

In Terminal or MegaGlest? How would I do it in MegaGlest if so

[tomreyn]

You start Terminal, then change into the directory the MegaGlest executable file is located in, then run it passing command line options to it.

This is an advanced but standard procedure, you'll surely find some web pages explaining how to use the Terminal on OS X easily by using a web search engine.

Edit:
Sadly this is unnecessarily complicated on OS X (a repetitive pattern there as soon as you need to operate under the hood), but it's still possible.

[techperson1]

Maybe to make it easier on all of us, can you just write out exactly what I want to put in terminal to change the res?

[techperson1]

Nevermind, I got it! I figured out that if I drag the executable file to terminal and the right a command from herehttps://docs.megaglest.org/MG/Command_line_options, it would work, Thanks for all the help!