Command Promt showing in window programming - Compiler dependent?

Hello,

New user here. I had a good look around, both around this site and elsewhere, but can't seem to come to an answer.

When creating a simple window, why would the command prompt still show 'behind' or rather along it? I've had a look at various examples' .cpp files and .exe files and it would seem that when I compile, the command prompt is there, yet in the provided original .exe it isn't.

Although I'm somewhat new to C++, I wouldn't fully classify myself as a total beginner as I do have previous knowledge and experience with other languages, so I'm pretty much flying through this stuff(Among other sources, tutorials on this site - They are really amazing!), and as such, I'm a little worried that it's a setting or two within a compiler(Or compiler's built in behavior to begin with) that does this.

I'm mostly using Dev-C++, although when I tried it with some other ones such as Code::Blocks, Borland, etc, the result is the same. Am I missing something?

If you are running from the IDE this is probably normal. It might be the IDE calling the command prompt. Does this happen if you run the program from the Windows "Run a program" or the command line?

Jim

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Originally Posted by jimblumberg

If you are running from the IDE this is probably normal. It might be the IDE calling the command prompt. Does this happen if you run the program from the Windows "Run a program" or the command line?

Jim

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I run it by launching the exe. Same happens when going through the compilers' "Compile and Show" feature. However I launch it happens.

I do recall playing around with Microsoft Visual C++ a few years back, and this would indeed *not* happen...so you may be onto something here.

The whole "command prompt showing" is usually a flag in the executable header. So you might say it depends on the compiler, but that's not the whole story. You have to explicitly tell the compiler what kind of application you want. Do you want it to show this cmd prompt or not? You would have to specifically check your compiler's/IDE's documentation to find how to do this.
So it really has nothing to do with the code.