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Title: C::B keeps switching to full screen console
Post by: TheEmperor on December 13, 2009, 06:17:11 am

Code blocks (under Windows XP, using MinGW) keeps running everything in full screen mode, and it happens a lot: on startup, on loading a project, on compiling, and of course on running a console application.

I imagine in most of these cases code blocks is running some program in the background (i.e. the compiler) and it's output is supposed to be hidden. Unfortunately it's not and my screen keeps getting swiched to a black text screen.

Any ideas on how to fix this. It never did this last week by the way. Maybe it's a windows setting that's wrong, but I can't imagine what.

Thanks for any help.

Title: Re: C::B keeps switching to full screen console
Post by: MortenMacFly on December 13, 2009, 01:56:28 pm

Quote from: TheEmperor on December 13, 2009, 06:17:11 am

Maybe it's a windows setting that's wrong, but I can't imagine what.

Definitely. You can be sure that we wouldn't release such a broken IDE. You are the frist reporting so. I am 100% sure it's a Windows settings you did in th past although I never heard that this is possible at all.

Title: Re: C::B keeps switching to full screen console
Post by: stahta01 on December 13, 2009, 06:33:57 pm

Under windows 7, when running sed.exe I am having a similar problem.
I see an cmd window open for about a 2 sec length when sed is redirecting output to  a temp file.

Not, seen the same under Code::Blocks but I am running it as administrator.

Tim S

Title: Re: C::B keeps switching to full screen console
Post by: Jenna on December 14, 2009, 10:31:03 am

Quote from: TheEmperor on December 13, 2009, 06:17:11 am

Code blocks (under Windows XP, using MinGW) keeps running everything in full screen mode, and it happens a lot: on startup, on loading a project, on compiling, and of course on running a console application.

I imagine in most of these cases code blocks is running some program in the background (i.e. the compiler) and it's output is supposed to be hidden. Unfortunately it's not and my screen keeps getting swiched to a black text screen.

Any ideas on how to fix this. It never did this last week by the way. Maybe it's a windows setting that's wrong, but I can't imagine what.

Thanks for any help.

I guess you accidently changed the default-settings of cmd.exe to be displayed in full screen mode.
Change it back to windowed mode and the problem will (most likely) go away.