Re: [Gimp-developer] Console window on Win32

[Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de>]

Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> I wrote:
>  > > Except that on Windows it's not "or", but "and". Just starting a GUI
>  > > application from a command shell in a console window doesn't make its
>  > > stderr and stdout connected.
>
> Iago Rubio writes:
>  > True, but I think my point of view is still valid. No Windoze app opens
>  > a console for output.
>
> Yes. My point was mostly directed to Unix-oriented people to warn them
> not to think or advice Windows users that "just start the application
> from a command prompt and you will see the output". It isn't that
> easy.
>
> For instance to see the help text from "gimp --help" on Windows one
> has to pipe its output to more. (Currently, with the
> console-window-opening still in GLib, the text output appears in a
> console window that opens but that then immediately closes when GIMP
> terminates...)

When started from the MinGW (and probably Cygwin) bash, this doesn't 
happen. The output appears in the same console (rxvt window).
Of course, it isn't really running on Windows in this case, but at least 
developers using thiese environments shouldn't be affected by the lack 
of the output then (or will they?).


Michael

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