Re: Get parent's console?

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From: Vincent Fatica (abuse_at_localhost.com)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: 25 Jan 2005 16:53:10 -0500

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:05:53 -0000, "James Brown"
<remove_james_dot_brown7_at_virgin_dot_net> wrote:

>I struggled with AttachConsole under XP, the problem seemed to be
>that the C-runtime stdio handles weren't set correctly, so things like
>printf / fgets just didn't work properly.

After AttachConsole(), set up whatever crt std handles and file descriptors
you will use like this (shown for stdout):

   /* AttachConsole(...); */
   int hCrt;
   FILE *hf;
   hCrt = _open_osfhandle(
             (long) GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE),
             _O_TEXT
          );
   hf = _fdopen( hCrt, "w" );
   *stdout = *hf;
   i = setvbuf( stdout, NULL, _IONBF, 0 ); 

-- 
 - Vince

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