Windows character mode applications using the functions provided by the console I/O functions. This tag should be used by questions about the console functions, structures and winevents, which support character mode applications.
Questions tagged [windows-console]
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Console Application With Multiple Panels
I'm writing a C# TCP Server as a console application,
my requirement is to display few information in separate panels in same console, like this image bellow
Is this possible to achieve in C#? if it is possible sample code will be very helpful.
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I want to change Cmd Font Style
I want to Change Cmd Font with C - Coding.
But I don't know how to change it.
I want to change Basic font -> Terminal Font.
This is my code
CONSOLE_FONT_INFOEX cfi;
cfi.cbSize = sizeof cfi;
cfi.nFont = 0;
cfi.dwFontSize.X = 0;
cfi.dwFontSize.Y =…
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In Perl, how to clone output to stdout and a log file in real time
I want to clone the output to the console as well as to a log file simultaneously. Here is my code snippet:
open STDOUT, ">>", "temp.txt" or die "";
system("echo This is a sample output..........");
But, here I only get output in the temp.txt and…
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rename multiple files with script
I found this script on here and modified it. It works only for 1 file at a time not multiple files. How can I get this script to rename multiple files in the directory specified?
@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set X=64
set Y=4
set…
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Windows CMD: How to pipe running program output to FINDSTR and write to file
I am trying to filter the output of a running program (ping) and write the results to a file.
In the following example the ping program runs until CTRL-C is pressed:
ping www.google.com -t | findstr "Reply" >> file.txt
the result of this is the…
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Execute two commands as a single action in windows command prompt
We have a system where an application A starts the second application B to run in background (no gui or console window should be shown). However, the first application should be able to execute a command and continue working without waiting for the…
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How to format text using std:out setfill std::setw std:right with one padding space
I just want to format a string and an integer value with right justify.
There is no problem to do this without leading space before the integer value.
bytes.....................123981
total bytes..............1030131
But it should look like…
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How to print first 5 lines of the file in windows cmd
How can I print first 5 lines of the file in windows CMD?
There is a problem that I can't use PowerShell (spicific task) and batch scripts. Can you help me with this?
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Clear screen with Windows "cls" command in Java console application
I am working on a game that involves clearing the screen after each turn for readability. The only problem is I cannot use the Windows command prompt-based "cls" command and it does not support ANSI escape characters. I used Dyndrilliac's solution…
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How to Close Console Application Gracefully on Windows Shutdown
I am trying to close my vb.net console app gracefully when windows shutdown occurs. I have found examples that call the Win32 function SetConsoleCtrlHandler that all basically look like this:
Module Module1
Public Enum ConsoleEvent
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Adding scrollbar to console
How to add scroll bar to console using system function?
I'm using system("MODE 100,50"); to set customize console window size.
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Perl console window - how to make it non-closable?
I'd like to know if there's any way to hide the closing button or at least make it non-clickable when using Perl in console. I know it's possible when using GUI, but I need to make a console-based application and don't want the user to close it on…
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Getting rid of Python console in wxPython under Windows
Possible Duplicate:
How can I hide the console window in a PyQt app running on Windows?
How to get rid of the console that shows up as standard output when running wxPython programs in Windows?
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i18n shell in windows
Is there an i18n shell in windows that supports a large character set? Testing my application in windows results in some math characters not being rendered correctly. The Lucida font in cmd.exe and powershell do not have a wide enough…
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GotoXY implementation
This question is a follow-up one to my prior post entitled How to fix this procedure writing a string to the console screen buffer.
I want to set the cursor to a given (x,y) position prior to writing an arbitrary string:
GotoXY(x,y)
SendLn('The…
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