Console app with no window

[ssg31415926]

Is it possible to create a console app that doesn't display a
window?

I want to create an app which runs before the main app and starts it
in another process and I don't want the console box to appear and
disappear as it does at present.

[Peter Duniho]

On Tue, 27 May 2008 11:22:46 -0700, ssg31415926 <ne**********@gmail.com>
wrote:

Is it possible to create a console app that doesn't display a
window?

No... the OS automatically creates that for console applications.

I want to create an app which runs before the main app and starts it
in another process and I don't want the console box to appear and
disappear as it does at present.

Then don't make your application a console application. Just make it a
regular Windows application, but don't show a window. In VS, you can
start with a console application, but then in the project settings, change
it to a Windows application. As long as you don't actually show a window,
no window will appear, but as a Windows application, the OS won't create a
console window for you either.

Pete

[ssg31415926]

That sounds spot on. Thanks very much for your advice.

On May 27, 7:27 pm, "Peter Duniho" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

On Tue, 27 May 2008 11:22:46 -0700, ssg31415926 <[e-mail]>
wrote:

Is it possible to create a console app that doesn't display a
window?

No... the OS automatically creates that for console applications.

I want to create an app which runs before the main app and starts it
in another process and I don't want the console box to appear and
disappear as it does at present.

Then don't make your application a console application. Just make it a
regular Windows application, but don't show a window. In VS, you can
start with a console application, but then in the project settings, change
it to a Windows application. As long as you don't actually show a window,
no window will appear, but as a Windows application, the OS won't create a
console window for you either.

Pete