C++ Console

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  1. parkp333

    parkp333 New Member

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    How can I intergrate a console in a Windows GUI application. A CMD type thing.
     
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    shabbir Administrator Staff Member

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    What do you mean by integrate?
     
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    If you'd like to open a separate command window, just execute a system ("cmd.exe"); call. If you want to make your own command interpreter, write it, and replace "cmd.exe" with "myCommandInterpreter.exe" (or whatever you call it).
    Code:
    #include <windows.h>
    #include <process.h>
    #include "stdafx.h"
    
    extern "C" int system (char *cmd);
    
    int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
                         HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
                         LPSTR     lpCmdLine,
                         int       nCmdShow)
    {
    	system ("cmd.exe");
    	return 0;
    }
    
     
  4. parkp333

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    Well you see I just want a console in my GUI program because I need this to do some winsock because yeh... Well please tell me how to make a console type thing inside a GUI program?? This is very important to me
     
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    No, I don't see. Do you see? Did you even read the response? Do you see that it opens a console (without writing the rest of your code, of course). If you don't want the system's console window, make your own window and write your own command interpreter.
     
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    Where can I find this stdafx.h header file? and does this make a console inside your GUI window?
     
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    .h file can do nothing apart from just having some function signatures and stdafx file just does absolutely nothing apart from including some more headers files.
     
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    yeh but i wonder how can i make a text box be some batch file i have made can someone give me a tip?
     
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    Still I could not get what you want to be doing?
     
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    I have made this Batch File and I want a text box kind of thing (where user can input) to be related to a batch file... so that if in my batch file i have for example

    set hello=
    set /p hello=Command:

    well that "Command:" appears in the text box in the c++ program...
     
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    You put a textbox in your app and ask for the input from the user and save it in a batch file on some place in the local disk.
     
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    no because actually this thing i want is to put some console c++ apllication into a text box... is that possible
     
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    I doubt that but may try this.

    Have a custom control on the Dialog and change the class of the control to ConsoleWindowClass
    see if that works for you.
     
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    Ok, yeh well that is not really my point, i want to link a console based program to a text box area inside my GUI window
     

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