Console Window and OpenGL
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Is there anyway to have a console popup, let you input variables and stuff in it, and then when you are done with it have the program resume using OpenGL?
if i'm getting what you want properly then yes, but you would have to programm it all yourself
Hmm, yes, as phantom said, you would have to do it yourself, OpenGL is kindof a rendering API :D
Anyways, assuming you meant a standard Windows(tm) console that was fairly easy, I added one to my own opengl window class, I just roughly chopped out the implementation of the console window here if it would give you any pointers to what to do: (Window:: is my own homebrewed opengl enabled window class)
(I might have ripped this of someone else and modified it to my own needs in the first place btw)
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Don't know if some definitions are missing, but I am short on time now. Provided as is .
Edit: one of meny spelling errors corrected.
Anyways, assuming you meant a standard Windows(tm) console that was fairly easy, I added one to my own opengl window class, I just roughly chopped out the implementation of the console window here if it would give you any pointers to what to do: (Window:: is my own homebrewed opengl enabled window class)
void Window::RedirectIOToConsole(){ CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO coninfo; FILE *fp; // allocate a console for this app AllocConsole(); // set the screen buffer to be big enough to let us scroll text GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), &coninfo); coninfo.dwSize.Y = MAX_CONSOLE_LINES; SetConsoleScreenBufferSize(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), coninfo.dwSize); // redirect unbuffered STDOUT to the console lStdHandle = (long)GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE); hConHandle = _open_osfhandle(lStdHandle, _O_TEXT); fp = _fdopen( hConHandle, "w" ); *stdout = *fp; setvbuf( stdout, NULL, _IONBF, 0 ); // redirect unbuffered STDIN to the console lStdHandle = (long)GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE); hConHandle = _open_osfhandle(lStdHandle, _O_TEXT); fp = _fdopen( hConHandle, "r" ); *stdin = *fp; setvbuf( stdin, NULL, _IONBF, 0 ); // redirect unbuffered STDERR to the console lStdHandle = (long)GetStdHandle(STD_ERROR_HANDLE); hConHandle = _open_osfhandle(lStdHandle, _O_TEXT); fp = _fdopen( hConHandle, "w" ); *stderr = *fp; setvbuf( stderr, NULL, _IONBF, 0 ); // make cout, wcout, cin, wcin, wcerr, cerr, wclog and clog // point to console as well ios::sync_with_stdio();}(I might have ripped this of someone else and modified it to my own needs in the first place btw)
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#include <windows.h>#include <stdio.h>#include <fcntl.h>#include <io.h>#include <iostream>#include <fstream>Don't know if some definitions are missing, but I am short on time now. Provided as is .
Edit: one of meny spelling errors corrected.
wow I had no idea it was so easy to get a console window to open up. Thanks for that code, for my last project I wound up trying to code my own console, but that would have made things sooooo much easier.
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(I might have ripped this of someone else and modified it to my own needs in the first place btw)
Heh, yes, I thought that code looked familiar. :)
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