Thread: Win32 Console App... multiple console buffers

I want to have multiple consoles in a program, and switch between them.

So I can have multiple screens the user can swap between by pressing a button... that would be especially useful for debugging.

Code:

#include <iostream.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <conio.h>

int main()
{
	HANDLE oldConsole = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
	int junk;

	cout << "Old!" << endl;

	getch();

	HANDLE newConsole = CreateConsoleScreenBuffer(GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_SHARE_WRITE, NULL, CONSOLE_TEXTMODE_BUFFER, NULL);
	FreeConsole();
	cout << "This shouldn't show up" << endl;
	SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer(newConsole);
	system("cls");

	cout << "New!" << endl;
	getch();

	system("cls");
	FreeConsole();
	SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer(oldConsole);
	return 0;
}

I know I'm not doing this exactly right, but I don't know exactly how to do so.

I know there is a way to do it with the Console APIs... http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de..._functions.asp