2009/6/26 Corinna Vinschen: >> The proper, yet probably completely impractical solution: compile >> Cygwin programs for the GUI subsystem instead of the console one and >> attach to the parent process' console, if any, with explicit calls at >> program startup. POSIX programs don't use the Win32 console API, so >> there should be no need to always have a console available. > > The problem is rather that you want to be able to run certain native > applications which refuse to run if no console is allocated. Or they > pop up a console on their own.
Good point, that would be rather an unwelcome change. Shame. >> Otherwise: >> >> DWORD version = GetVersion(); >> version = ((version & 0xff) << 8) | ((version >> 8) & 0xff); >> if (version >= 0x0601 && AllocConsole()) >> ShowWindowAsync(GetConsoleWindow(), SW_HIDE); >> >> Still looks bad though, with "subliminal" popups, as demonstrated by >> mintty on Windows 7. > > And what's really bad is that the console shows up in the taskbar. Forgot to say: the occurances of this could at least be reduced by trying AttachConsole to get a hold on the parent process' console, if any. When I attempted that in MinTTY, though, I couldn't make it work. Did you previously mention that MS fixed bug in this area? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
