OpenEuphoria

Re: The Console

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Nov 02, 2000
• 362 views

On 2 Nov 2000, at 10:44, Cuny, David@DSS wrote:

> Since console access seems so slow in Win32, I decided to try wrapping the
> functions and working with it directly. I'm not having much luck, so if anyone
> can point out what I'm doing wrong here, I'd appreciate it.
>
> The file is at:
>
>         http://www.lanset.com/dcuny/tmp/console.ew
>
> When I run the program normally, nothing happens. When I run it in trace
> mode, AllocConsole fails. My guess is that AllocConsole isn't typically
> needed - Euphoria has already got a console.
>
> The real problem is WriteConsole - I can't get it to write anything to the
> console. I've also tried WriteConsoleOutputCharacter with similar non-results.

Just a thought... If Eu grabs a console for itself, for err displays, and you
try to use another one, would this be like trying to multitask dos?

Kat