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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C++ Create New Window From Console in New Thread (Win32)
Working environment:
I am working in VS 2015, and a win32 console.
Overview:
I am creating a new window to act as a worker thread to perform some functions that cannot be completed in the console.
The code to create the new window and complete the…
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Equivalent of os.system without a console window?
I have a line that I can use it with os.system like;
os.system("ffmpeg -i file.smh -acodec libmp3lame file.mp3")
Where ffmpeg is an exe file. But It creates a console window on the screen. Normally I hide the console window by the following:
import…
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Console end of input
Consider the following loop:
While Console.In.Peek() >= 0
Console.WriteLine(Console.ReadLine())
End While
It works as expected (i.e. echos the input) when the input is re-directed from a file. However, when the lines are typed in console, the…
AlwaysLearning
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Get first and last day of previouse week on windows command line
Is there a way to get the first and the last day of the previous week into two variables on the windows command line?
The date format I'd like to use is YYYY-MM-DD.
Klaus Stadler
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run a script PHP from Windows command line without opening any browser
i want to run a script PHP (example : http://localhost/project/test.php) from the command line without opening any browser.
i use the command :
START http://localhost/projetc/test.php
but this command opens a browser
do you have any solutions?
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How to execute hidden command in cmd and exit
I have this line:
C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe start /minimized /wait cmd.exe /c picture.jpg
I use this line in Target field of shortcut.
When I run it, it opens minimized cmd, and picture. What I need is to close that cmd, after opening picture,…
user1437437
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Console appear automatically in every web page
When I browse any page, Inspect element appear in screen. Console shows some error code like,
403, 404, 400.It happened every single minute. Even when I write my question in stack overflow, it appears four or five times. It's impact in my device…
shamima akter
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Script waits for input when importing the webbrowser module
I'm having a small yet quite annoying issue with Python. When I import the webbrowser module in a Python script that is run from IDLE, it works perfectly fine. However, if the script is run outside of IDLE, importing the webbrowser module makes the…
Felix Tremblay
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Undefined reference to GetConsoleWindow
I am trying to get a handle for the console window with the following:
#include
#include
#include
#define NTDDI_WIN7 as 0x06010000
#define _WIN32_WINNT as 0x0500
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
HWND self =…
Linz
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Windows command line %argument was unexpected at this time (with single percentage!)
I'm trying to run the following command in a command prompt, with single percentage for the argument, as it should be for command prompt instructions:
for /F %remote in ('git branch -a') do (git branch --track %remote) && git fetch --all && git pull…
Axonn
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How can I see the full 20x70 2d array that I just created? C++
New here. Okay so in my project I have a 20x70 2d array, but I can't see it all using the usual 2d array printing. By "see it all" I mean my console is too small. Is there any way of printing the full matrix and see it in the console? Or is there…
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Hiding a console window for Keylogger in C++
Can anyone explain the following code, which was used to hide the console windows while doing Keylogger project in c++
void hide();
int main()
{
hide();
MSG Msg;
//IO::MKDir(IO::GetOurPath(true));
//InstallHook();
while…
user8507713
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How to write ^C in the Windows console?
How to write ^C at in the Windows console? For example, I need to enter ^C in this window. If you press Ctrl+C in the console, the application exits and the console closes.
Nihat Eliyev
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C# Console Application Crashing
On Visual Studio, the C# Console application keeps on terminating when I try to run a program. I tested this by just writing Hello World, shown here:
(screenshot of what I wrote)
When I run it, the command prompt window appears for a second, then…
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