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Win application without winconsole

Intel_C_Intel — Fri, 19 Oct 2001 23:35:29 GMT

I am the first time user of this forum.

I would like to create a Fortran Console Application that runs on Win 98 without a dos window appearing. How can I do that?

Re: Win application without winconsole

Jugoslav_Dujic — Sat, 20 Oct 2001 01:04:05 GMT

The point of using console applications is to have a console. Technically, you could hide it but the code would be a little complicated (I could post it but right now I'm in quite a hurry).

The simpler method would be to recompile the application as Windows application,
replacing PROGRAM with:

 
INTEGER(4) FUNCTION WinMain(hInst, hPrevInst, szCmdLine, nCmdShow) 
!DEC$ATTRIBUTES STDCALL, ALIAS:"_WinMain@16" :: WinMain 
!DEC$ATTRIBUTES REFERENCE:: szCmdLine 
INTEGER:: hInst, hPrevInst, nCmdShow 
CHARACTER(*):: szCmdLine

Note, however, that in the latter case any attempt to PRINT * or WRITE(*) (which are useless anyway if the widnow is hidden) would cause a crash. If your program has command-line arguments, you couldn't use GETARG, but parse szCmdLine yourself.

Jugoslav

Re: Win application without winconsole

david_jones — Sat, 20 Oct 2001 02:20:22 GMT

You may find it enough simply to change the proprties associated with your console application. For example, set the properties of a shortcut to your .exe file to be "start minimised" or whatever phrase is used in your OS.