On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 12:14:31PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 11:02:12AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 12:44:23PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>I have some testing code which only tries to create an invisible console >>>if the application to execv is not a Cygwin application. It seems to >>>work nicely. I'm just not sure if it's really *that* simple... >> >>I actually had some plans (which I have talked about here from time to >>time) for the invisible console for cygwin apps so I am not ready to >>admit defeat for this method yet. > >I think I have a workaround for this which avoids the flashing console...
I've checked in a workaround for the problem: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2009-q3/msg00010.html I checked this by removing the Windows 7 code from mintty and rebuilding it. With the currently released version of Cygwin 1.7.0-50 this causes a windows console to be displayed on the screen along with the expected mintty window. With the 20090703 snapshot, which includes Corinna's workaround, I got a flashing console. With the code in CVS I got the expected behavior of no console flash. As I type this I realize that I didn't really confirm that the new invisible console code has the desired effect in mintty. It is supposed to make some (native?) apps work better. I thought that one of the apps was the "net" command and I don't have any problems running it but does anyone remember a specific program (maybe even a cygwin program?) which required the existence of a console to work correctly? If so, I'd like to add it to the comments in the source code and verify that it still works. If you want to try a snapshot, make sure that you grab the new helper app "cygwin-console-helper.exe" and put it in /bin. Without this, you'll still see the same flashes as the 20090703 snapshot. The new .exe file is in here: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin-inst-20090704.tar.bz2 cgf -- 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
