Thread: Console boxes

On the Win32 platform, one solution is to design the process as a service.

Kuphryn

Code:

#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

bool HideConsoleWindow()
{
    char title[MAX_PATH];
    HWND hwnd;

    // NOTE: if you have 2000/XP and latest Platform SDK, then you can simply 
    //       call GetConsoleWindow() and pass that to ShowWindow()
    
    if (GetConsoleTitleA(title, sizeof(title))      &&
        ((hwnd = FindWindowA(NULL, title)) != NULL) &&
        ShowWindow(hwnd, SW_HIDE))
    {
        return true;        
    }//if

    return false;
}//HideConsoleWindow

int main()
{
    if (HideConsoleWindow())
        MessageBoxA(NULL, "You can't see me!", "<Nelson>:Ha-Ha", MB_OK);
    else
        cout << "Didn't work, ec = " << GetLastError() << endl;

    return 0;
}//main

Or start the console application using this:

Code:

bool StartAppHidden(char *command)
{
    PROCESS_INFORMATION ProcInfo = {0};
    STARTUPINFO si = {0};

    si.cb = sizeof(STARTUPINFO);
    si.dwFlags = STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW;
    si.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE;

    BOOL bSuccess;
    bSuccess = CreateProcessA(NULL, command, NULL, NULL, FALSE, 0, NULL, NULL, 
                              &si, &ProcInfo); 
    if (!bSuccess)
        return false;

    CloseHandle(ProcInfo.hThread);
    CloseHandle(ProcInfo.hProcess);

    return true;
}//StartAppHidden

gg

There is an easy answer, if you are using Dev-C++ go to "Linker" and write Yes instead of No on the "Make a console window"

Originally Posted by Bomber_nuke88

(asthetics) I know it can be done easily with a windows project...

He knows.

gg

>> ...MS-DOS doesn't have multitasking capabilities...
Dev-C++ creates 32bit console applications will all the capabilities of 32bit GUI applications. The only difference is that the OS creates a console window for you and hooks up standard input and standard output to that window.
Any technique you use will require windows.h, so you might as well do it the WinMain() way.

gg