Thread: Creating buttons using one console window

Hi,
I just wanted to create 4 buttons, x,y coordinates will set later.
I created 4 buttons but when I run this program, it is showing 5 console windows to close each button as highlighted in red box of screnshot.

how can make sure that when I RUN THIS PROGRAM, it should show only one console window with4 buttons

Code:

#include <Windows.h>


int main()
{
MSG msg;
HWND hWnd = CreateWindow(TEXT("button"), TEXT("START"), WS_VISIBLE | WS_POPUP | WS_CHILD | WS_TABSTOP | BS_BITMAP,
50, 50, 150, 150, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
   
SendMessageA(hWnd, WM_SETTEXT, 0, (LPARAM)"STOP");
hWnd = CreateWindow(TEXT("button"), TEXT("START"), WS_VISIBLE | WS_POPUP | WS_CHILD | WS_TABSTOP | BS_BITMAP,
250, 250, 150, 150, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
        
SendMessageA(hWnd, WM_SETTEXT, 0, (LPARAM)"PAUSE");
hWnd = CreateWindow(TEXT("button"), TEXT("START"), WS_VISIBLE | WS_POPUP | WS_CHILD | WS_TABSTOP | BS_BITMAP,
350, 350, 150, 150, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
        
SendMessageA(hWnd, WM_SETTEXT, 0, (LPARAM)"EXIT");
hWnd = CreateWindow(TEXT("button"), TEXT("START"), WS_VISIBLE | WS_POPUP | WS_CHILD | WS_TABSTOP | BS_BITMAP,
450, 450, 150, 150, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);


while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0))
{
ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_SHOW);
UpdateWindow(hWnd);
TranslateMessage(&msg);
DispatchMessage(&msg);
}
return (int)msg.wParam;
}

Console windows are for displaying text, not for hosting button controls.

Nevertheless, console windows do possess a HWND which could be obtained through an Api call. I forget the exact name, something like GetConsoleWindow() or GetConsoleHandle() or something like that. Using that HWND you could set the console window as the parent of each button. But you are ignoring about half of the parameters of your CreateWindow() calls.

I gotta say that's some of the wierdest Windows code I've ever seen. That's why nobody's answering you.