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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:03:15 +0100
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Subject: Re: popup consoles on Windows 7
From: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
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2009/6/26 Corinna Vinschen:
>> The proper, yet probably completely impractical solution: compile
>> Cygwin programs for the GUI subsystem instead of the console one and
>> attach to the parent process' console, if any, with explicit calls at
>> program startup. POSIX programs don't use the Win32 console API, so
>> there should be no need to always have a console available.
>
> The problem is rather that you want to be able to run certain native
> applications which refuse to run if no console is allocated. =C2=A0Or they
> pop up a console on their own.

Good point, that would be rather an unwelcome change. Shame.


>> Otherwise:
>>
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 DWORD version =3D GetVersion();
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 version =3D ((version & 0xff) << 8) | ((version >> 8) & 0x=
ff);
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 if (version >=3D 0x0601 && AllocConsole())
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ShowWindowAsync(GetConsoleWindow(), SW_HIDE);
>>
>> Still looks bad though, with "subliminal" popups, as demonstrated by
>> mintty on Windows 7.
>
> And what's really bad is that the console shows up in the taskbar.

Forgot to say: the occurances of this could at least be reduced by
trying AttachConsole to get a hold on the parent process' console, if
any. When I attempted that in MinTTY, though, I couldn't make it work.
Did you previously mention that MS fixed bug in this area?

Andy

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