Re: Can't seem to get rid of the console window (Windows port)

[Michael Torrie <torriem chem byu edu>]

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 13:22 +1000, Justin Clift wrote:
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> Michael Torrie wrote:
> > You can also change the executable type after the fact using the
> > exetype.pl program found at
> > http://www.devdaily.com/scw/perl/perl-5.8.5/win32/bin/exetype.pl.shtml
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> Hey, good work.
>
> That's an interesting way of doing things.  Haven't tried it, but did
> bookmark it for potentially-useful-later.

It works well for any exe you encounter. For example I had a program
that would spawn sox.exe and pass it data to process (sound data).
Under Windows 98 the normal spawning process opened up a console window
every time sox was launched.  There are ways of dealing with this, like
spawning a helper program that creates a hidden console and then runs
sox.exe for me.  But I found that toggling the windows subsystem flag in
the sox.exe binary I was using worked just great.  sox ran and processed
the data but no console window was ever displayed.

There is a utility that ships with Visual Studio to do this, but the
perl program is a little bit cheaper for me.

Michael


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> Justin Clift
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