Thread: creating a terminal

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    creating a terminal

    This shouldn't be to hard, atleast I wouldn't think. I created new project of type Win32 Consol... thing is, I can't do anything that I wanted to do to make it look nice. Such as GetStockObject(DEFAULT_GUI_FONT) to set the font ....

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    The console runs in a different subsystem than a graphical windows app.
    Also, it's not possible to change the consoles font, it's a user setting. Remember that GetStockObject and similar functions are all for graphical windows (literally windows), you fetch the information and then update whatever window with a message.

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