Re: PR_CreateProcess() without Windows console window?

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Benjamin Smedberg <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 7/12/10 2:52 PM, Fredrik Roubert wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> When I use PR_CreateProcess() to run an executable that on Windows is
>> built as a console application, a console window will pop up (and
>> quickly disappear again, as the executable I'm calling just performs a
>> very quick task). Would it somehow be possible to get rid of this
>> window?
>>
>> If it isn't currently possible, what do you think of adding come
>> functionality to PR_CreateProcess(), maybe accessed by a flag in
>> PRProcessAttr, that would add the right flags to the Win32
>> CreateProcess() call?
>>
>
> While it is technically possible, I don't think it is worth the hassle to
> add NSPR flags to solve this problem: since you already know the correct
> windows-specific code, why don't you use CreateProcess() directly and bypass
> NSPR?
>

Since the console is inherited by default, your invoking program, which I
presume you control, could allocate a console for itself via AllocConsole
and hide the window[1] before creating the process.

-Rob

[1] GetConsoleWindow will get you the HWND