[Qt-interest] stdout of MSWin GUI application run from console

[Paul Miller]

On 4/13/2011 1:54 AM, Graeme Gill wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I'm sure that this has been raised before, but why doesn't
> a QT MSWin GUI application fix the stdin, stdout&  stderr to go to
> the console it's started from (when it's started from a console),
> so that it behaves the same as QT on other platforms (ie. Linux&  OS X) ?

This just isn't possible (easily) on Windows.

When I need to have a "command-line version" of a Windows program I have 
a completely separate console-only version that doesn't have the UI 
stuff in it. It's annoying but you'll pull your hair out trying to get 
it work "like Linux" trust me.