I wrote a short application that searches for a file. If it finds it, it will run it... if it doesn't, it will ask if you want to install it.
The application is a console application. While it is searching, I would like to hide the console window. Is this possible?
Note 1: I've tested it with Notepad.exe and it works, finding it and running it when I press any key...
Note 2: I am using Visual C++ as my compiler.
Thanks,
Xeno
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Minimize it? or don't show the bar in the staus bar?
Sorry, I should have mentioned that... I would like to not show it at all but if that isn't an option, I'd like to minimize it and / or not show it in the taskbar.
Thanks.
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In MSVC, create a new Win32 Application. Put your code inside WinMain. Simple, no window, nothing. If you want to alert the user of something, use MessageBox();
This is what the main cpp would look like:
Code:int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) { MessageBox(NULL, "Hi", "I'm alerting you!", 0); return 0; }
No, he wants to be using a console app, open a prog from within that, and then hide the console app window, right?
You can use FreeConsole() & Alloc Console() to detach your apps from the console (It doent really work it you run it from a command prmopt though - only from double clicking the program).......
Once more though...if you are really concerned about your programs on-screen actions, then you should look to building a GUI application....a console isnt built to look nice on screenCode:#include <windows.h> #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { cout << "Woohoo...I am on the console!!" << endl; Sleep(2000); FreeConsole(); MessageBox(HWND_DESKTOP, "Woohoo...I have killed the console!!","Sigh :(", MB_OK | MB_ICONEXCLAMATION); AllocConsole(); cout << "Woohoo...The console lives again!!" << endl; Sleep(2000); FreeConsole(); MessageBox(HWND_DESKTOP, "Er....that's it!!","Bah!! :(", MB_OK | MB_ICONEXCLAMATION); return 0; }
Thanks, I was reading about FreeConsole() on msdn.microsoft.com but wasn't sure how to implement it.
I originally tried to make a Win32 app but kept getting all sorts of compile errors about unresolved external references in one of the include files... so I abandoned the idea.
But... for some reason, I was able to create both the Console version and the Win32 version today... guess sleep is useful after all.
Xeno
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