Re: [Msys2-users] Starting an application on Windows

[Bill L. <Bi...@WR...>]

Thank you for the pointer.

Isn't amazing how Google will give answers when you know the right 
question to ask, where you can spend enormous amounts of time and 
frustration when you do not?

Again: Thanks.

Bill Lee
On 01/20/2015 01:58 PM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> Bill Lee <Bi...@WR...> writes:
>
>> Perhaps this isn't the correct place to ask, but since my application is
>> developed under msys2, I will ask here to start.
>>
>> I am developing an application that uses ncurses for screen management.
>> The intent is to ultimately have a program that a Windows user can click
>> on (like any other Windows application), have the application open the
>> window where it executes, etc.
>>
>> This seems to be working just fine except: I get a small console window
>> also opened, followed by the ncurses window. The small console window
>> sticks around until the application is finished running and then disappears.
>>
>> What I want to do is do away with the (seeming) extraneous small window.
>> And since I know very little (essentially zero) about how Windows works,
>> perhaps someone could give me some insight about what's going on and
>> what I can do about it.
> After 10 seconds of Googling, I found this:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4441551/how-to-stop-mingw-g-opening-a-console-window-in-windows
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA.
> GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn.
> Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth.
> Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant.
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet
> _______________________________________________
> Msys2-users mailing list
> Msy...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
>