Detecting if console window is available, how ?

[Ali Imran]

Can we detect if the console window is available ? Means if the program was compiled including console window.

any help is highly appreciated.

regards

[golanshahar]

i am not sure if this is what you need but you can check the ::GetConsoleWindow(..) (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/getconsolewindow.asp) api, if there is one associated with you process it will retun a valid handle else will return NULL.

Cheers

[SuperKoko]

You may want different things (but you requested for the point 3).

If you need a console window to output informations, you can use AllocConsole.
It creates a console if a console does not exists, and does nothing if a console already exists for the process.
It works for GUI applications, and console applications created with the DETACHED_PROCESS argument of CreateProcess.
If you need to detect if there is a console window currently visible to the user which may have been created at runtime by AllocConsole, or created at startup time because the application is a console application, you should use GetConsoleWindow as golanshahar said.
But if you need compatibility with Windows 95/98/Me/NT4 you should not use this function.
If you need to detect if the application's executable was compiled as a console application, you should retrieve the executable's file name, with GetModuleFileName on the handle returned by GetModuleHandle(NULL), and then use SHGetFileInfo with uFlags==SHGFI_EXETYPE.
And finally you should compare the return value to 0x00004550 (HIWORD==0, LOWORD=PE).

You can get informations on MSDN.
good luck! :)