It seems that v1.x requires the use of argument parser instead of option parser. But where can one find the documentation for an arg_parser, the supported arguments to arg_parser.add_argument(.....) and the syntax for each type of argument?
My apologies to the entire Inkscape developer's community. I did not realize that argparse is a facility provided by Python, not an Inkscape specific thing. So now I have found the documentation by searching Python documentation
Creating New Extensions Switching to arg_parser
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It seems that v1.x requires the use of argument parser instead of option parser. But where can one find the documentation for an arg_parser, the supported arguments to arg_parser.add_argument(.....) and the syntax for each type of argument?
https://inkscape.gitlab.io/extensions/documentation/source/inkex.base.html
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In .inx file
<param name="number_of_sides" type="int" min="1" max="100" gui-text="Number of Sides">3</param>
In .py file
def add_arguments(self, pars): pars.add_argument("--number_of_sides", type=int, dest="sectors", default=6)To use value in the py file
My apologies to the entire Inkscape developer's community. I did not realize that argparse is a facility provided by Python, not an Inkscape specific thing. So now I have found the documentation by searching Python documentation