Help with GetConsoleWindow()

[Ewert, Mark]

I'm running an application that calls the stubbed out function
GetConsoleWindow(). I want the application to stay in the dos console
when it runs but unfortunately when it sees a NULL from
GetConsoleWindow() it loads a graphical window. I tried hacking the
function to return the value 1 and this gave me the result I had hoped
where it did not call up a graphical window but at a later point I get
the error:

wine: Unhandled exception (thread 000d), starting debugger...

Any ideas on what GetConsoleWindow() should actually return?

Cheers,

Mark

[Eric Pouech]

> Any ideas on what GetConsoleWindow() should actually return?

it should return the handle of the window (user32) where the console 
actually runs (it is attached to a console).
Anyway, are you sure the segfault you see is related to returning a non 
NULL value in GetConsoleWindow compared to another bug in Wine (because 
you are running on another codepath - the first one being the graphical 
display).
Where does you program actually crash ?
A+

[Jason]

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I'm running an application that calls the stubbed out function 
GetConsoleWindow(). I want the application to stay in the dos console when 
it runs but unfortunately when it sees a NULL from GetConsoleWindow() it 
loads a graphical window.
Any ideas on what GetConsoleWindow() should actually return?

If you only want to run in a console then do not use a main(void)
entry like:
int main(int argc, char *argv[])

Change it to the following example app.
Note that if using MSVC remove the
"subsystem :console" from the linker
options.

#include <windows.h>

int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
LPSTR     lpCmdLine,
int       nCmdShow)
{
    /* new console for this process */
    AllocConsole();

/* Get handle to standard out */
 HANDLE hwnd = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);

unsigned long ulWritten;

for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
 {
  /* writes a character string to a console screen buffer */
  WriteConsole(hwnd,"Hello World\n",12,&ulWritten,NULL);

Sleep(1000);
 }

return 0;
}

GetConsoleWindow is only implemented on newer versions of windows.

Jason
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