Re: Window problem: avoid the GDNC console window

[Fred Kiefer]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> 
> On 5 Apr 2006, at 04:55, Lloyd Dupont wrote:
> 
>> Every now and again (basically mainly when I create an 
>> NSTextAttachment of Image type) I get a GDNC console window which 
>> pops-up over my application, i.e. a black and white DOS console 
>> without prompt and titled "GDNC" appears over my application.
> 
> Ideally you would locate the bug causing this to happen, and fix it.  
> What can cause a DOS console to appear?
> GDNC is a non-gui application launched as a child task ... so nothing 
> should make it appear as a window ... it doesn't have one.
> I suspect some bug in your code or in the windows backend for the gui 
> is triggering some windows specific feature to get the subtask 
> displayed in a window.
> just launching gdnc separately (so it's not a child of your 
> application) might prevent this from happening ... but what really 
> needs to be done is identifying how/why this is caused, since 
> presumably it could happen t *any* task launched as a child of the 
> application.
> 

If I remember correctly from my own windows programmer days (long time
ago), than the opening of a console window depended on some flags in the
executable file header. This may be fixed by setting some obsure flags
in gcc, but I don't remember any details.
But it may be a lot more complicated for gdnc, as we fork of yet another
process when gdnc starts. resulting in things going not taken in account
by the above fix.

Fred