Both a command line and GUI application at the same time?

[wysota]

All mixed console/GUI Windows apps I have seen for a long time were exe files. And what's wrong in wrapping ReadConsole/WriteConsole and stdin/stdout into one clean interface and using that? It's probably around 10-20 lines of code total.

[agarny]

All mixed console/GUI Windows apps I have seen for a long time were exe files. And what's wrong in wrapping ReadConsole/WriteConsole and stdin/stdout into one clean interface and using that? It's probably around 10-20 lines of code total.

Would any of those console/GUI Windows applications be freely available for download, so that I can try them out? I would certainly interested to see how they behave and, therefore, see whether they have any of the pitfalls that I have read about and experienced myself.

As for ReadConsole/WriteConsole, did you read the quote I just gave and my comment #13? In my experience (and that of the article author, if one is to believe what he wrote) is that it's messy. Now, I am certainly not claiming that my use of AttachConsole and WriteConsole was perfect. In other words, I am not excluding the fact that I may have done something sub-optimal, if not wrong, but in that case I would then very much appreciate some pointers to what you would consider to be the 'perfect' use of those Windows API functions.

[wysota]

Would any of those console/GUI Windows applications be freely available for download, so that I can try them out? I would certainly interested to see how they behave and, therefore, see whether they have any of the pitfalls that I have read about and experienced myself.

I don't know, I guess some tools Microsoft provides with Windows fall into this category but to be honest, I'm not sure.

Anyway I still fail to see what's wrong with attaching a console. Redirection works in terms of stdin/stdout and not console so it might work. At worst you can find a way to open stdout but it is so Windows specific that you have to look for help at more suited sites than ours.

[agarny]

Anyway I still fail to see what's wrong with attaching a console.

As I said, I may be wrong and maybe attaching a console could work. It's just that I haven't been able to get things to work to my satisfaction (again, see comment #13), and what I have found on the Internet so far seems to indicate that it might not be possible indeed. I shall certainly keep looking for it when I have time, since I would rather just have one .exe file than both a .com and a .exe file.

Redirection works in terms of stdin/stdout and not console so it might work.

I am not sure what you mean by this.

At worst you can find a way to open stdout but it is so Windows specific that you have to look for help at more suited sites than ours.

That, I can only agree with indeed!

[wysota]

I am not sure what you mean by this.

By redirection I mean the redirection operator (">") which associates stdout of a process with a file. Console has nothing to do with this really.

[agarny]

Oh, ok, got you, and yes indeed.