LE3 Hide Dos Screen

[gordonramp]

When a project is published and executed a black and white Dos screen precedes the program. It would be much better if this could be hidden.

I'm also wondering if the program window can be centered on a screen.

[AggrorJorn]

Is this a lua project or C++ project?

[gordonramp]

Lua.

[Josh]

There's a Visual Studio project setting to disable this, but I can't remember off the top of my head. Chris knows the answer.

[Guest Red Ocktober]

target a win32gui app instead of a Win32 console app...

 

 

under properties the linker page... linker /system /subsystem

 

right now it probably reads /subsystem=Console(/SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE)

change it to

properties /linker /system /subsystem=Windows(/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS)

 

is that the setting you're looking for?

 

 

--Mike

[Josh]

Sounds familiar.

[Josh]

FYI, you also have to change "main" to "WinMain":

int WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)

[Canardia]

There an much easier way, just insert this line into your source code, no need to change compiler settings or change the main function:

 

#pragma comment(linker, "/SUBSYSTEM:windows /ENTRY:mainCRTStartup")

[Josh]

Nice. Will it accept the main() function, even though the arguments are different from WinMain()?

[Canardia]

Yes, your main function will work as usual, including its command line parameters.

Your main function should be always:

int main(int argc, char* argv[])

Don't use variations of this, for example argv**, because they are not compatible with some 3rd party libs.

[NobbyVedania]

When a project is published and executed a black and white Dos screen precedes the program. It would be much better if this could be hidden.

 

There an much easier way, just insert this line into your source code, no need to change compiler settings or change the main function:

 

#pragma comment(linker, "/SUBSYSTEM:windows /ENTRY:mainCRTStartup")

 

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for!

 

I've added a build target switch, so console window will only appear on debug build:

 

#ifndef DEBUG
   #pragma comment(linker, "/SUBSYSTEM:windows /ENTRY:mainCRTStartup")
#endif

I've put that on top of main.cpp.

[Vulcan]

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for!

 

I've added a build target switch, so console window will only appear on debug build:

 

#ifndef DEBUG
#pragma comment(linker, "/SUBSYSTEM:windows /ENTRY:mainCRTStartup")
#endif

I've put that on top of main.cpp.

Wow that was lean code. Thanks!