Create window console inside main win32 window

Question

I have a win32 application that need to open a console like the games when tilde is pressed. I tought that the best solution is to use the CreateWindow function. Is this right?

Answer 1

This is some pretty old code, haven't even really looked over it. Hopefully it's what you need. If you just need a very simple one you can also just make a call to AllocConsole();

void DevConsole::Create(){

  CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO consoleInfo;
  int consoleHandleR, consoleHandleW ;
  long stdioHandle;
  FILE *fptr;

  AllocConsole();
  std::wstring strW = L"Dev Console";
  SetConsoleTitle( strW.c_str() );

  EnableMenuItem(GetSystemMenu(GetConsoleWindow(), FALSE), SC_CLOSE , MF_GRAYED);
  DrawMenuBar(GetConsoleWindow());

  GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo( GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), &consoleInfo );

  stdioHandle = (long)GetStdHandle( STD_INPUT_HANDLE );
  consoleHandleR = _open_osfhandle( stdioHandle, _O_TEXT );
  fptr = _fdopen( consoleHandleR, "r" );
  *stdin = *fptr;
  setvbuf( stdin, NULL, _IONBF, 0 );

  stdioHandle = (long) GetStdHandle( STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE );
  consoleHandleW = _open_osfhandle( stdioHandle, _O_TEXT );
  fptr = _fdopen( consoleHandleW, "w" );
  *stdout = *fptr;
  setvbuf( stdout, NULL, _IONBF, 0 );

  stdioHandle = (long)GetStdHandle( STD_ERROR_HANDLE );
  *stderr = *fptr;
  setvbuf( stderr, NULL, _IONBF, 0 );

}