Win32 project - Open cmd & print output

[AtomicChip]

Hey all,

I'm assuming this can be done with the system("cmd") call or something like that.. Only problem is, how to I then turn around and get the handle to that window, or output text to it?

I'm assuming it's something pretty straightforward that I'm missing...

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"The night sky over the planet Krikkit is the least interesting sight in the entire universe."
-Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy

 

[cpjust]

I'm assuming you're asking how you can get the output of a command you run with system("cmd")...?

If that's what you want to do, use popen() instead of system(). Here's the example in the MSDN:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void main( void )
{

   char   psBuffer[128];
   FILE   *chkdsk;

   /* Run DIR so that it writes its output to a pipe. Open this
    * pipe with read text attribute so that we can read it 
    * like a text file. 
    */
   if( (chkdsk = _popen( "dir *.c /on /p", "rt" )) == NULL )
      exit( 1 );

   /* Read pipe until end of file. End of file indicates that 
    * CHKDSK closed its standard out (probably meaning it 
    * terminated).
    */
   while( !feof( chkdsk ) )
   {
      if( fgets( psBuffer, 128, chkdsk ) != NULL )
         printf( psBuffer );
   }

   /* Close pipe and print return value of CHKDSK. */
   printf( "\nProcess returned %d\n", _pclose( chkdsk ) );
}

 

[AtomicChip]

Thanks - that's a starting point, but it won't work for my app...

Here's a quote from that same page:

Note If used in a Windows program, the _popen function returns an invalid file pointer that will cause the program to hang indefinitely. _popen works properly in a Console application.

This seems to be the proper way of doing it:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d..._process_with_redirected_input_and_output.asp

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"The night sky over the planet Krikkit is the least interesting sight in the entire universe."
-Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy

 

[mingis]

As I understood, AtomicChip wants to have a console-like output window for his windowed application. I would like to know such type of built in windows control too. Until now I have done it with simply static or edit control performing all console scrolling by myself.