[perl-win32-gui-hackers] Win32::GUI::Console [Was: Application that in installed in perl bin directory to start up samples]

[Robert M. <rm...@po...>]

Jeremy White wrote:
 > Robert May wrote:
>> Is this a good thing to pursue?  Suggestions for changes or 
>> alternative approaches welcome.  A better name for the script would be 
>> good too!
> 
> Nice - with a good set of examples it would certainly show what 
> Win32-GUI is capable off.

Based on the feedback I'm going to have a go at completing this.  I want 
to do some more work on understanding Win32 Consoles - partly spurred on 
by this effort, and partly spurred on by Steve Loughran's questions 
about launching sub-processes on the users' list.

I'm thinking about a Win32::GUI::Console module that extends the 
Win32::Console module (another of Aldo's creations), to wrap the things 
that GUI apps might find useful when dealing with Consoles  (I already 
have something that I call Win32::GUI::Console that wraps a RichEdit 
Control for use as pseudo Console).

Something like this:
- ability to close Console if there is one present and its not needed
- automatically re-create a console window if any reads/writes are done 
on stdin/out/err
- ability to set the Console window title, Icon etc.

Eventually remove GetPerlWindow() from GUI.xs??

It'd be especially good if you could then use the module like
   perl -MWin32::GUI::Console script.pl
to launch apps that weren't written with Console hiding in mind, and you 
didn't know whether there would be console output of not; Additionally
   wperl -MWin32::GUI::Console script.pl would provide a console if any 
input or output was required, meaning that you wouldn't miss warnings etc.

Regards,
Rob.
-- 
Robert May
Win32::GUI, a perl extension for native Win32 applications
http://perl-win32-gui.sourceforge.net/