Console creation?

[Delta01]

Well,

I'm sure most of you know of the "console applications" that can be created in C#/C++. My question to you is, can autoit create them? Create a console window and then write text into it, I've looked under Console and WINAPI in the helpfile but haven't found anything.

If it can, please tell me which functions to look up.

Thanks

[BrettF]

Well,

I'm sure most of you know of the "console applications" that can be created in C#/C++. My question to you is, can autoit create them? Create a console window and then write text into it, I've looked under Console and WINAPI in the helpfile but haven't found anything.

If it can, please tell me which functions to look up.

Thanks

ConsoleRead/ConsoleWrite and #AutoIt3Wrapper_Change2CUI=y at the top.

Cheers,

Brett

[Delta01]

ConsoleRead/ConsoleWrite and #AutoIt3Wrapper_Change2CUI=y at the top.

Cheers,

Brett

Sorry. But I don't understand the whole AutoIt wrapper. Can you do a quick example?

[Squirrely1]

@Delta1 - Please put this at the top of your script, and read it:

; Purpose - Script boilerplate to build a command consoled app.
; Requires - SciTe4AutoIt3 to be installed on the system used to compile script
; Notes - 
;           Only works as expected using the compiled version of your script.
;           Edit: Using this script, you CAN still create any GUI windows.
;           Use ConsoleWrite to output to the command window.
;           ConsoleRead maybe can be used to read from the command window.
;           StdoutRead maybe can be used to read from the command window.

#AutoIt3Wrapper_Change2CUI=y

; code to accept a commandline parameter - 
; Author - Zedna
If $CmdLine[0] > 0 Then
  If $CmdLine[1] = "/help" Then
    ConsoleWrite("some info")
    Exit
  EndIf
EndIf

Edit: Stricken text as per RichardRobertson: "Using this script, you cannot..."

Edited April 11, 2008 by Squirrely1

[Richard Robertson]

Squirrely, you can create standard windows in a console application. There's nothing preventing that from being done.

In a normal sense, yes it would be a problem, but as far as I know, AutoIt always runs the message loop for it's own private window.