Author Topic: WinAPI Using starting console (Read 3822 times)

Veltas · « **on:** August 17, 2012, 05:15:40 AM »

How does one detect and attach itself to the console window it was started from (if it was started from a console window)?

BC_Programmer · « **Reply #1 on:** August 17, 2012, 05:22:09 AM »

You don't, at least not as I understand it.

Only way to be part of an existing console is to have the executable set as a Console program. Otherwise, it doesn't get a console, and the console that it started from oesn't belong to it's process so you couldn't AttachConsole() to it anyway.

Veltas · « **Reply #2 on:** August 17, 2012, 05:24:27 AM »

So no Windows applications can use their starting console? That's a shame...

It's no massive deal, it's simple enough to AllocConsole.

Okay, thanks then.

Veltas · « **Reply #3 on:** August 17, 2012, 05:26:58 AM »

How do you thank people for a post with the 'thanks' system?

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