From bd3f9e76229dffcc853e5d47ea06ee9658606c5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: m-kro <m.barthauer@t-online.de>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 09:36:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] allow FOX switches in debug version ref #15970

Signed-off-by: m-kro <m.barthauer@t-online.de>
---
 src/utils/options/OptionsParser.cpp | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/utils/options/OptionsParser.cpp b/src/utils/options/OptionsParser.cpp
index 2248c7b995fb..00461b6a8d45 100644
--- a/src/utils/options/OptionsParser.cpp
+++ b/src/utils/options/OptionsParser.cpp
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 /// @author  Daniel Krajzewicz
 /// @author  Jakob Erdmann
 /// @author  Michael Behrisch
+/// @author  Mirko Barthauer
 /// @date    Mon, 17 Dec 2001
 ///
 // Parses the command line arguments
@@ -66,6 +67,14 @@ OptionsParser::check(const std::string& arg1, const std::string* const arg2, boo
         return 1;
     }
 
+#ifdef _DEBUG
+    // allow to set FOX FXApp switches tracelevel (messages) and maxcolors
+    if ((arg1 == "-tracelevel" || arg1 == "-maxcolors") && arg2 != nullptr) {
+        ok = true;
+        return 2;
+    }
+#endif
+
     OptionsCont& oc = OptionsCont::getOptions();
     const bool append = arg1[0] == '+';
     // process not abbreviated switches