• Paul Stanton <Paul_member pathlink.com> Jan 31 2003
• Burton Radons <loth users.sourceforge.net> Jan 31 2003
• "Sean L. Palmer" <seanpalmer directvinternet.com> Feb 01 2003
• Karl Bochert <kbochert copper.net> Feb 07 2003
• Antti Sykari <jsykari gamma.hut.fi> Feb 08 2003
• "Mike Wynn" <mike.wynn l8night.co.uk> Jan 31 2003

Paul Stanton <Paul_member pathlink.com> writes:

Just wondering if anyone knows how to run an executable (d) without the console
window appearing?
I have written a process which should be a background task, and would prefer to
have no window associated with it.
Thanks in advance.

Burton Radons <loth users.sourceforge.net> writes:

Paul Stanton wrote:
 Just wondering if anyone knows how to run an executable (d) without the console
 window appearing?
 I have written a process which should be a background task, and would prefer to
 have no window associated with it.


Add "-L/exet:nt/su:windows" to the flags when you link.  Don't use a 
WinMain, just a normal main works properly.

"Sean L. Palmer" <seanpalmer directvinternet.com> writes:

But you lose printf that way.  ;(

Maybe Walter you can define a new stream type in addition to stdin, stdout,
stderr:  stddebug!!!  And on windows this goes to OutputDebugString,
otherwise the default is the same as stderr.

D doesn't have any console or file I/O of its own right now;  it's borrowing
everything from the C runtime library.  That should get addressed at some
point.  If printf is built into the language, so should sprintf and fprintf,
and thus so should the standard streams, fread, fwrite, etc.  That old
crufty C stuff is a big mess if you ask me.  I'd find a way to build a way
to pipe some generic string-builder functionality to any stream.

Sean

"Burton Radons" <loth users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message
news:b1epuj$1785$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Paul Stanton wrote:
 Just wondering if anyone knows how to run an executable (d) without the




 window appearing?
 I have written a process which should be a background task, and would




 have no window associated with it.


 Add "-L/exet:nt/su:windows" to the flags when you link.  Don't use a
 WinMain, just a normal main works properly.

Karl Bochert <kbochert copper.net> writes:

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 04:59:57 -0800, "Sean L. Palmer"
<seanpalmer directvinternet.com> wrote:
 But you lose printf that way.  ;(
 
 Maybe Walter you can define a new stream type in addition to stdin, stdout,
 stderr:  stddebug!!!  And on windows this goes to OutputDebugString,
 otherwise the default is the same as stderr.
 


While you're at it, why not have 'stdkey' which is to stdin as stderr is to
stdout?

Karl Bochert

Antti Sykari <jsykari gamma.hut.fi> writes:

Karl Bochert <kbochert copper.net> writes:

 On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 04:59:57 -0800, "Sean L. Palmer"
<seanpalmer directvinternet.com> wrote:
 But you lose printf that way.  ;(
 
 Maybe Walter you can define a new stream type in addition to stdin,
 stdout, stderr: stddebug!!!  And on windows this goes to
 OutputDebugString, otherwise the default is the same as stderr.
 


 While you're at it, why not have 'stdkey' which is to stdin as
 stderr is to stdout?


Heh - this reminds me of another proposition, namely "why not have
default values for function return values, like in some languages we
have default values for arguments".

Now, how would it work?

-Antti

"Mike Wynn" <mike.wynn l8night.co.uk> writes:

you might find these links useful
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/windows.html
http://www.l8night.co.uk/mwynn/d/win32api.html
http://www.codemoon.com/cm/artlist.php?index=main



"Paul Stanton" <Paul_member pathlink.com> wrote in message
news:b1epla$174u$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Just wondering if anyone knows how to run an executable (d) without the


 window appearing?
 I have written a process which should be a background task, and would


 have no window associated with it.
 Thanks in advance.