Re: g_spawn*() on windows

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Michael Cronenworth wrote:

> On 07/03/2014 08:33 AM, jcupitt gmail com wrote:
> > Yes, I'm doing that. It all works and I can capture stdout and stderr
> > from the convert.exe I'm running, it's just that I get a very annoying
> > command window flash on the screen each time.
> >
> > If anyone has any ideas about the command window, I'm all ears:-(
>
> I don't have ImageMagick binaries to check myself, but are they compiled as 
> Windows apps or console apps? Console apps will always force a command prompt 
> window to open. This is not a by-product of a g_spawn call.

Within the win32 API there's a way to suppress the appearance of the 
console in such a situation (by passing the flag CREATE_NO_WINDOW to the 
function CreateProcess). I don't know offhand if the gspawn API exposes 
this option. I use CreateProcess directly in the Windows version of my GTK 
application; the API is fairly simple, as Windows goes.

Allin Cottrell