SUMMARY: console on demand?

[jim@nga.com (Jim Roy)]

Thanks all.

My original question was how to avoid getting a window if you
don't need one.

Compiling with the -mwindows flag solved that.
"Console" mode programs have a console window attached by default,
but "GUI" mode programs do not.

That led to a second problem.  How to use printf() and it's relatives
with a console window in a GUI mode program, when you DO need to
interact with the user.

A chain of calls like:

> handleout = GetStdHandle (STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
> fdout = _open_osfhandle(handleout);
> fpin = fdopen(fdout, "w");
> fprintf( fpin, "blurf");

solves the problem.

Tol suggests a more direct method, using freopen(), but it does
not seem to work for me.  Perhaps, as he suggests it works with
msvcrt, but not with crtdll.

Thanks again,

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Jim Roy                      voice  541 757 7231
Sys. Admin.                  fax    541 757 7331
NW Geophysical Assoc.        http://www.nga.com
Corvallis Or. US
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