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Title: Why a Dos window appeares when i run my win32 Gui program?
Post by: facat on February 10, 2010, 03:33:43 pm

i write a win32 GUI program in C::B, build and run it. However, a Dos window appears with my GUI window. when i close that Dos window, my GUI window also closes.
i complie my program in VC6 and i do not see a Dos window.
Could anybody tell me why?

Title: Re: Why a Dos window appeares when i run my win32 Gui program?
Post by: oBFusCATed on February 10, 2010, 04:15:52 pm

Have you setup your C::B project as GUI (Project -> properties -> second tab)?

Title: Re: Why a Dos window appeares when i run my win32 Gui program?
Post by: MortenMacFly on February 10, 2010, 06:00:49 pm

Quote from: facat on February 10, 2010, 03:33:43 pm

Could anybody tell me why?

Unless you setup the project type to "GUI" the console will be shown to allow you to see debug messages you UI app prints into the console. This is useful for debugging, but only for that. A "GUI" based application does not show the console (hence there might be messages piped into the "virtual" console but you won't see them).

Title: Re: Why a Dos window appeares when i run my win32 Gui program?
Post by: facat on February 11, 2010, 02:50:24 am

Originally i set the project to console. now how could i change it to GUI?

Title: Re: Why a Dos window appeares when i run my win32 Gui program?
Post by: oBFusCATed on February 11, 2010, 09:38:43 am

Project -> properties -> second tab -> there you should see "Console", change it to GUI

Title: Re: Why a Dos window appeares when i run my win32 Gui program?
Post by: facat on February 11, 2010, 12:47:32 pm

Quote from: oBFusCATed on February 11, 2010, 09:38:43 am

Project -> properties -> second tab -> there you should see "Console", change it to GUI

i changed it to GUI, but the Dos windows still appears.

Title: Re: Why a Dos window appeares when i run my win32 Gui program?
Post by: MortenMacFly on February 11, 2010, 12:55:08 pm

Quote from: facat on February 11, 2010, 12:47:32 pm

i changed it to GUI, but the Dos windows still appears.

in that case either really part of your code (which you might want to post for inspection) or you are not using the "play" symbol for running the project or run a a different (wrong) target or... hard to tell with such less information. It's best if you strip your project to a minimal example and post it here, including project file and code file(s).

Title: Re: Why a Dos window appeares when i run my win32 Gui program?
Post by: facat on February 11, 2010, 05:56:18 pm

ok. i solved the problem. i just changed it to GUI for both Debug and Release  .