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Console using WinAPI

Started by DesignerX Jan 23, 2007 at 4:31 PM 3 replies 500+ views

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Jan 23, 2007 at 4:31 PM

Is it possible to open a console on a Win32 API project in Visual C++ 2005 ? (Besides application's window I want the dos console for writing simple debug messages with cout/printf) thx.

taby

Jan 23, 2007 at 4:33 PM

Consoles, including the creation of and writing to.

GamerYZ

Jan 23, 2007 at 4:50 PM

All you have to is add the following to your Win32 project:

#pragma comment( linker, "/SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE" )int main( void ){	return WinMain( GetModuleHandle( NULL ), NULL,		GetCommandLine(), SW_SHOWDEFAULT );}

This will create a console window along with the win32 window(assuming you set up everything right with creating the win32 window). After that you can just use cout any where to print stuff to console window.

Colin Jeanne

Jan 23, 2007 at 5:01 PM

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Original post by GamerYZ
All you have to is add the following to your Win32 project:

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This will create a console window along with the win32 window(assuming you set up everything right with creating the win32 window). After that you can just use cout any where to print stuff to console window.

Or you could just use AllocConsole().

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