X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:36:40 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: popup consoles on Windows 7 Message-ID: <20090626083640.GF30864@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <416096c60904051420h66325080j3b059f3fbb857bde@mail.gmail.com> <416096c60904150814y45976747qa7878d1ed256fc9@mail.gmail.com> <20090415153549.GA8722@calimero.vinschen.de> <416096c60904151350p62741e29if5c46598951d8dd9@mail.gmail.com> <416096c60904151415k6998673dw2ddf867653ae88e8@mail.gmail.com> <20090416092528.GB8722@calimero.vinschen.de> <416096c60904210835jd93a1b8w742bb8ebe0802c9c@mail.gmail.com> <20090421160026.GJ8722@calimero.vinschen.de> <20090508090737.GA15230@calimero.vinschen.de> <416096c60905131134l21aa53dqe7c3f99130dddb4e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <416096c60905131134l21aa53dqe7c3f99130dddb4e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On May 13 19:34, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/5/8 Corinna Vinschen: > > Unfortunately I got the reply that this issue cannot be addressed this > > time but MSFT will consider addressing the issue in a future version of > > Windows. > > Forgot to say: thanks for the update. > > > This is really bad. > > Yep. And the workaround with ShowWindowAsync() isn't great either. > > > I'm still trying to convince them that a fix is really important, but history is against me. > > I'm going to try to get at least a workaround. > > Well, good luck anyway! Out of luck. The issue will definitely not be fixed in RTM. Oh well. We will have to find a W7 workaround for our method of creating a hidden console. I have asked Microsoft to provide us with a workaround but I have no really big hope that they can or will do it. Any suggestions? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple