Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Win32::GUI::Console

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Robert May schrieb:
...
> If only there was a way to ask AllocWindow() to create a hidden console, 
> but I read that it's impossible.  (I do want to explore the possibility 
> of using a global hook to see if I can catch one of the messages that 
> happens early during window creation, and fiddle the WS_VISIBLE style, 
> but I'm not hopeful!)

You can create it offscreen, to the right or left.
So you can use CreateProcess() with
dwCreationFlags += CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE, instead of AllocConsole()

And STARTUPINFO.dwX holds the offscreen position.
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