Hi All,
I have very little idea about GUI programming in C however I have worked both in JAVA and C# with GUI.Now I am using mingw in Windows 7 and I want to create a CLI console window like command prompt for user interaction.Please provide some idea or some links anything goes.
Thanks,
Arka
There... that was easy.Code:system("cmd.exe");
Perhaps this
AllocConsole Function (Windows)
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@CommonTater
I didn't maen that.system("cmd") will open up a new command prompt window.I don't want that.I want to create my own cli like turbo c uses to console i/o.
Thanks,
Arka.
Before we get into that... Turbo C ??? Really??? You're seriously using that ancient and totally outdated piece of dinosaur dung?
You need to get yourself up to date. That's a DOS compiler that spits out 16bit code that won't even run on 64bit operating systems and for a certainty it's no big selling point in a job application, unless you've got a time machine to take you back to 1984...
Now about this CLI thing... on any version of Windows newer than Win2000 the Command Shell is actually a windows program (cmd.exe) that is run by windows. The command I gave you will open a CLI window for you. The console window you see open when you run a program is created by your program's startup code, not Turbo C... go ahead and compile up a little program, make sure it uses getchar(); at the end to keep the console window open...exit turbo c, find your program, click on it and you'll see that it creates it's own window...
If you're planning to write your own windows terminal (i.e. a cmd.exe replacement) you're going to need a LOT more programming skill... that's not a DOS program, it's actually a windows program using windows API calls. It's also a full blown interpreter and that's not beginner level coding.
Now, seriously... You have got to get something newer than Turbo C ... That's just a train wreck waiting to happen.
Try ... smorgasbordet - Pelles C
Last edited by CommonTater; 09-08-2011 at 07:43 AM.
