can you open a second window?

[Gdschaf]

so here's what i want to do. I have a window using winapi showing up and I want a basic command prompt window to also show up that i can write too. it's for a game and the command prompt window is where debug text will be displayed. is there a way to do that? and if so how would i print to that window? could i some how open up a new command prompt window, get the handle of it, and set cout to print to that some how? thanks in advanced.

[hamsterman]

You open the console with AllocConsole and write to it with WriteConsole. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682073(VS.85).aspx
You can set cin and cout to print to that console. I'm not sure how.. Google gave me http://www.halcyon.com/~ast/dload/guicon.htm

[Gdschaf]

thanks, AllocConsole worked, do you know how i'd get a handle to that window to use in WriteConsole?

[Gdschaf]

nevermind. i got it!