On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:45:30 -0800, Henry Vermaak
<[email protected]> wrote:
2009/12/27 Mimu Bunnylin <[email protected]>:
Currently, programs for Windows have to be specified as either $APPTYPE
Console or GUI.
If the user runs a console-mode program from a console, the existing
console is kept; run outside a console, a new console is created.
If the user runs a GUI-mode program outside a console, no console is
created, and if run inside a console, the console is immediately
released.
But suppose I want a program that will continue running in a console if
run from a console, but will not automatically create a new one if run
from outside a console. (Eg. without command-line arguments, launch the
program's GUI, otherwise print a list of valid arguments in the
console.)
This is basically how linux works. The child process of a terminal
inherits the standard input/output/error pipes of the terminal. If
the process is called from outside the terminal, the standard output
pipes are re-directed to ~/.xsession-errors by the desktop environment
(in my experience, at least).
Right. Now, how to achieve the same under Windows...
Would this be hard to implement? Presently I have to compile a
console-mode application, and use the Windows API call FreeConsole to
eliminate the console if it is not needed. This still makes a useless
console pop up for a moment, which looks silly. This could be as simple
as adding a check somewhere in the system unit for whether a console is
associated with the process or not, and decide the appropriate $APPTYPE
at runtime.
You can detect if a process is called from a console under windows.
I've got some code at work for that. What you would have to do is to
detect this, then attach the parent process' console to your app. I
haven't tried this, but it sounds achievable.
So, basically, make a GUI-mode application, let FPC release the console
during its normal startup initialisations, then detect that the parent
process was a console, and recapture the console... This could work,
thanks. It would still seem far simpler to alter the FPC system unit to not
release the console in the first place, but I could not find the relevant
part in the source code. (Too many files, not enough idea of where to
look.)
Henry
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