added commandline utilities

application/commandlineutils.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#include "commandlineutils.h"
+
+#include <string>
+#include <iostream>
+
+using namespace std;
+
+namespace ApplicationUtilities {
+
+bool confirmPrompt(const char *message, Response defaultResponse)
+{
+    cout << message;
+    cout << ' ' << '[';
+    cout << (defaultResponse == Response::Yes ? 'Y' : 'y');
+    cout << '/' << (defaultResponse == Response::No ? 'N' : 'n');
+    cout << ']' << ' ';
+    cout.flush();
+    for(string line; ;) {
+        getline(cin, line);
+        if(line == "y" || line == "Y" || (defaultResponse == Response::Yes && line.empty())) {
+            return true;
+        } else if(line == "n" || line == "N" || (defaultResponse == Response::No && line.empty())) {
+            return false;
+        } else {
+            cout << "Please enter [y] or [n]: ";
+            cout.flush();
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+} // namespace ApplicationUtilities
+

application/commandlineutils.h

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#ifndef APPLICATIONUTILITIES_COMMANDLINEUTILS_H
+#define APPLICATIONUTILITIES_COMMANDLINEUTILS_H
+
+#include "global.h"
+
+namespace ApplicationUtilities {
+
+enum class Response
+{
+    None,
+    Yes,
+    No
+};
+
+bool LIB_EXPORT confirmPrompt(const char *message, Response defaultResponse = Response::None);
+
+} // namespace ApplicationUtilities
+
+#endif // APPLICATIONUTILITIES_COMMANDLINEUTILS_H

c++utilities.pro

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 projectname = c++utilities
+VERSION = 1.0.6
 
 # include ../../common.pri when building as part of a subdirs project; otherwise include general.pri
 !include(../../common.pri) {
@@ -27,7 +28,8 @@ SOURCES += \
     application/fakeqtconfigarguments.cpp \
     io/ansiescapecodes.cpp \
     misc/random.cpp \
-    io/bitreader.cpp
+    io/bitreader.cpp \
+    application/commandlineutils.cpp
 
 HEADERS += \
     application/global.h \
@@ -51,7 +53,8 @@ HEADERS += \
     io/ansiescapecodes.h \
     misc/memory.h \
     misc/random.h \
-    io/bitreader.h
+    io/bitreader.h \
+    application/commandlineutils.h
 
 OTHER_FILES += \
     README.md \

general.pri

@@ -12,7 +12,17 @@ unix {
     QMAKE_LFLAGS += "-Wl,--rpath=./"
 }
 # prefix
-targetprefix = .
+targetprefix = $$(TARGET_PREFIX)
+equals(targetprefix, "") {
+    win32 {
+        targetprefix = ../../..
+    } else {
+        targetprefix = ../..
+    }
+}
+message("Using target prefix \"$${targetprefix}\".")
+# print install root
+message("Using install root \"$$(INSTALL_ROOT)\".")
 # target
 CONFIG(debug, debug|release) {
     TARGET = $$targetprefix/$${projectname}d