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Hi,

I'm playing around with this code to wrap window's cmd.exe into a gui, right now I have this, but the command window inside moveable, and I want to restrict that. Also there is some refresh problems too. Does anyone have any experience working with the console?

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That isn't a cmd wrapper - you use the original cmd.exe (I wouldn't call it a console, it's a command prompt).

But what about a real cmd-wrapper?
Then you wouldn't have problems.

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It seems the cmd window doesn't respond to changes in style.



You could add GuiSize so the cmd window automatically refreshes, or even use OnMessage to refresh on mouse movements etc.

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Yea, for some reason, the ConsoleClass doesn't seem to be a real window (as far as configuring the style is concerned.)

I'd like to be able to turn off the titlebar and caption buttons.

John:
I don't know what the technical term of what I'm doing is called. But I'm putting a gui around the original cmd.exe.

I don't have a purpose for this program, I'm just playing around trying to embed the prompt inside a gui so I can add controls around it later, so it's more of a test of an idea. Do you have any experience with this?

I'm not looking to write something that polls the cmd window for changes and mirrors that on a separate window, yet. Again, I'm just playing around with what I can do with this.

Now I understand. But it isn't hard to code a cmd - but it gives much advantages:
You can add every function you like, maybe loops like in bash (a *nix shell)
You can insert code very fast (no need to simulate input)
You can make a history and a list of windows internal-programmes with description, search and other stuff (code completion...).

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You sound like you already know of code that does this? Maybe I am not searching the right terms.

No, but I know what the cmd.exe does, and I can imagine how it works - it's not important what the code is or what it's written in, it's important what you want to do and how you can do the actions needed to do.

"Show me your code, but hide your data structures, and I'll trap in darkness, but show me your data structures, and I won't need your code, because I know how it should look like" (free translation of a rule of 'SelfLinux').

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