Skip the start screen in one-off mode

[rakyll]

arduino, as a command line tool, should never require a graphical desktop environment. Given one of the one-off mode options (such as --verify and --upload), the executable should only use stdout and stderr to report the launch progress or keep itself silent.

[carlosperate]

A known issue that, for now, looks like it won't be fixed: #1981

[rakyll]

I am working on a command line tool that wraps arduino, my primary goal is to give users no graphical output rather than disabling the graphics mode entirely -- my users are likely going to be using the tool on a desktop env anyways.

As it's mentioned on #1981, graphics dependencies are deeply baked in Base.java. But what about closing the splash screen right after the launch, before it's too late at

Arduino/app/src/processing/app/Base.java

Line 437 in 2c05841

} else if (parser.isVerifyOrUploadMode()) {

?

[carlosperate]

I believe that is currently only a problem on os x, this issue might have more info about it: #1970

Maybe one of the main developer can shed some light on this specific request.

Since you are also working on a CLI tool, it might be work checking if errors trigger a window to pop up. I've found this issue #3515 on Windows, might be same in other operating systems.

[matthijskooijman]

This is actually a duplicate of #1970, so I'm closing this report in favor of that one. IIRC, the problem is that the splash screen is shown by the loader which runs before any of our Arduino Java code runs.