X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:44:25 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: popup consoles on Windows 7 Message-ID: <20090702174425.GC9839@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20090626102313 DOT GA12963 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <416096c60906260503o52ae73ben1140bbbd2db993bb AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <20090626121215 DOT GJ30864 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <416096c60906260541t56687113p9c940d4251f68405 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <20090626133618 DOT GA14187 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20090626145213 DOT GK30864 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <416096c60906270139y33e2888cq148430eebb744b71 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <20090628103010 DOT GT30864 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 05:41:18PM +0100, Julio Costa wrote: >HKCU\Console\\WindowPosition = 0x80008000, where >is the name of current command being launched > >Yes, I know, more klumsy workaround... I'm not happy with that also, >but at least avoids the console *window* flashing. >Alas, the ShowWindow stuff it's still needed for the taskbar icon :( You haven't programmed many multi-threaded, multi-process aware applications if you think that setting a registry key is going to work right. >Why on Earth are we having this trouble to have an available console >all the time? Is it necessary to redirect the in/out streams? Is it >another thing? >I'm really trying to think 'out of the box', because it could be the >case that there is another implementation path that doesn't really >need consoles at all... Yeah, what were we thinking? We went out of our way to set up a hidden console, expending considerable effort to do so when they really weren't needed. How about if you think within the box and do a google search rather than suggesting that we didn't know what we were doing? cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple