cant print to screen

[wheatbread]

I have a basic Win32 dialog program that I need to turn into a command line program. I've got everything done, but none of the printf or cout statements are printing to the console so that I can see progress etc. I cant use messageboxes because this will be run in a batch format.

Am I missing something?

[Zaita]

Are you using int main(); instead of WinMain() ?

[wheatbread]

Its a WinMain call
int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)

I have to still be able to use it as a dialog app as well.

So I need both, the windows dialog and to be able to run it without the window

[Zaita]

You can create dialogs from an application using int main();

I am going to guess, but with WinMain you'll need to create your own console, then redirect stdout to it.

[wheatbread]

Does that mean I have to convert the WinMain into a main()? I dont know how to do this. I still need the windows dialog to work properly though.

ANy ideas?

[Duthomhas]

Somewhere at the beginning of your WinMain() call AllocConsole().

You will then have to hook up the standard streams.
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