Using System(), but invisible?

What I made can be called a "text interface" to a program that is ran by flags ([program name] -d -f -l and etc), to make it easier for beginners to use it. However, once the program runs, it displays text, which appears on my program.

Is there a way for me to make this child program "invisible", so my program does not display the text? I've seen this done before (on the same program :p) in Visual Basic.

Not sure, but try looking up popen( ).

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Im guessing it's using the Spawn option. With P_WAIT?
Nothing talks about whether the text is visible or not...

You cannot use system and hide the console box. You would be better off using the winapi to do it.Look up OpenProcess or ShellExecute or similar family of functions in your helpfiles.

I think there's another way to what you wont to achieve. This should make the console not display any text and a window not to pop up (i think).

Code:

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//...
system("@ECHO OFF");
system("program_name -options");

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or you could make another program that doesn't display any text at all. But I guess that's too much hassle.

Code:

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system("@ECHO OFF");
system("program_name -options")

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That won't work, each call to system() gets you a new shell, and hence new environment.

If you're doing this in a Windows console, a quick hack would be something like
>>system("myprog >nul");

You can see this in action by going to a command prompt and typing:
dir >nul

On *nix, you can redirect the output to /dev/null for the same affect.

popen() is a good solution if you want to trap the output and read it into your program.

Thanks! That works fine!
All about the quick hacks :).