On 2 March 2011 12:52, Graeme Gill <graeme2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > jcupitt@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> As a result of this strange design, it's impossible on Windows to >> write a .exe that can be used smoothly both from the command-line and >> from the desktop. > > I've written a couple of applications that run from the command line and > happily throw up windows and interact with the desktop on MSWin (and > OS X and Linux). There's nothing special about it - any normal command > line main() program with stdin/out/err can create windows by calling > CreateWindow(). Yes, but if they are tagged as CLI .exes (which they will be if you can run them from the command-line and the CLI blocks until they exit) when you run them from the Windows shell by double-clicking an icon you will get an annoying extra console window linked to stdin/stdout. John _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
