Thread: Getting output from console apps

Some products, such as MSVC++ can capture the output from an application they run (ie. a compiler).

I want to do this, to create a sort of "windows console" - simmilar to consoles found in games, but a convinent way of using the command prompt without having to load it up all the time.

So my problem is: How do I capture the output of a console app, or system command (like dir, cd, mkdir etc...)

Thanks!!

Jeff

Ok, now I have the following in my app:

Code:

AllocConsole();
char foostring[] = "dir";
system(foostring);

Which outputs the return of a "dir" command into my new console. Now how do I make it instead of outputting that to the console window, put it into my own buffer?

Thanks again,
Jeff

Some compilers have popen() or _popen() which will open a pipe to a command. You might try searching your documentation for such things.