Re: Console window opening during system() call inside GTK User Interface

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

vijayasarathy wrote:

> At some point of time inside the UI, I have to get an exe file 
> from the user, and then invoke the system() call to run the exe 
> as if it were run from a shell ...
>
> When I invoke the system call from a call back function and run 
> the exe in windows, the problem is that another console window 
> keeps opening...

Using system() is a very bad idea on MS Windows.  You should see 
what glib offers in the way of spawning processes, e.g. at

http://developer.gimp.org/api/2.0/glib/glib-Spawning-Processes.html

If you need even more fine-grained control look at the win32 API:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682425(VS.85).aspx

Allin Cottrell