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Questions tagged [windows-console]

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.

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Why do special characters in a batch file print as a question mark?

So I was working on a batch file game a while ago, and for some reason it prints a question mark symbol instead of the smiley face symbol (which you get when you press Ctrl+A in a command prompt). My Program ScreenShot I have the same problem with…
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SetConsoleMode returning false when enabling ANSI color under Windows 10

I've recently upgraded one of my PCs from windows 7 pro to windows 10 pro. I'm trying to run some code that I know is working on another windows 10 machine (that was win10 pro from the beginning). In both cases, I'm using Visual Studio Community…
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pushd in Windows Power Shell and Command Prompt

I have a batch script on my computer called cs.bat. When I enter cs in the command prompt, pushd takes me to a certain directory and leaves me there. In PowerShell, the command does the same thing but then brings me back into the starting…
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C# Console Disable Resize

How to achieve programmatically that the console window is not resizable. I don't want user to change the console window size with their mouse.
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SetCurrentConsoleFontEx doesn't set the font from GetCurrentConsoleFontEx

I call GetCurrentConsoleFontEx and then call SetCurrentConsoleFontEx with the same information. I would have expected that setting the new_font = old_font would have no effect. Clearly, I was naive. The exact program is: #define _WIN32_WINNT…
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Is there a limit on the output of Console Window?

Code: This program checks if the 2 numbers entered and their sum are divisible by the numbers 2 - 9, and displays the remaining divisible numbers (excluding the one being reviewed). static void Main(string[] args) { for (int i = 2; i < 10; i++) …
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How do I get the arrow keys recognized by Yo on Windows 10?

I'm trying to run a Yo generator on my Windows 10 machine but it doesn't react when I press the arrow keys in order to select an option. I found this issue on GitHub and tried to change loopback:relation but it didn't work for me. Maybe there's a…
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Gracefully terminate a Boost Asio based Windows console application

I am working on a boost.asio based HTTP server. It is supposed to be stopped externally. We use asio signal handling, and it works well for ctrl-c, but does not handle WM_CLOSE, so there is no straightforward way to gracefully close the application…
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Inheritance of classes that aren't related in the traditional sense of OOP

I am wondering if I am approaching my project the right way in terms of OOP. My project consists of a windows console application in c#. The point of the application is to take user input, convert it to an sql query and query the connecting database…
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Why do I receive each keyboard event twice when using ReadConsoleInput?

Okay, so to start off the topic I want to say that I am relatively new to coding. That being said I apologize if the question is too vague to understand. The following code is from my first real c++ program I am making for Win32. The function…
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Thread exiting message in .Net MVC console

I get this message: the thread has exited with code 0 sometimes in the output window in debug mode when running a .net mvc c# application. The application still works after these messages, it does not crash and there is no reason to crash, any ideas…
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unable to print euro symbol in a "C" program

I am unable to print the euro symbol. The program I am using is below. I have set the character set to codepage 1250 which has 0x80 standing for the euro symbol. Program ======= #include #include int main() { …
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Permanent removal of logo in Windows Scripting Host (WSH) scripts

I know two ways to remove the logo permanently. The "official" one: cscript //Nologo //S Will save current command line options for current user. A ftype approach with admin privileges: ftype wsffile="%SystemRoot%\System32\CScript.exe" //nologo…
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is there a way to distinguish stderr in console output?

That is display both streams on console but distinguish somehow one from another. Normally is that I don't know which lines are stderr they are mixed with normal output. If I redirect it to a file then I don't know when in relation to normal output…
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HtmlAgilityPack & Windows 8 Metro Apps

I'm trying to get HtmlAgilityPack to work with Windows 8 Metro Apps (Windows Store Apps). I've successfully written out all the code I need in a Windows Console App (C#) and it works perfectly for parsing the HTML I need and returning me the…
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