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

[Rainer Wiesenfarth]

Am 13.04.2011 17:56, schrieb Graeme Gill:
> Rainer Wiesenfarth wrote:
>> [...]
>> ... and back to the thread's subject: (MS) Windows GUI applications do
>> not use a console, fullstop. If you want Linux behavior, run Linux... ;-)
>
> Sorry, and here's me thinking that Qt is a cross platform library...

And maybe this is the reason why Qt does not offer a solution here. 
There is no cross platform common behavior:

- A _Windows_ user assumes that a _GUI_ application, if by any weird 
circumstances started from a console, detaches itself and runs "in 
background" and independent of the console. Thus a GUI application that 
tries to give Windows look-and-feel should not use a console on Windows.

- A _Linux_ user assumes that a _GUI_ application started from the shell 
remains in the foreground and has stdin, stdout, and stderr connected to 
the shell.

And, for completeness: for _console_ applications, both users assume 
that the application does not use any GUI at all (probably does not even 
need a device context or associated X-Display).

Writing cross platform GUI applications that act "native" on all 
platforms means: Do not use stdin, stdout, and stderr. And that is, what 
Qt supports... ;-)

Best Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Rainer Wiesenfarth

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