[Bf-committers] Console on Windows Build

[Joshua Leung]

AFAIK, Windows does not allow this sort of hybrid approach (writing
console output only when started from a console), otherwise we'd have
done it already. Only *nixes tend to do this. On Windows, it's either
an all or nothing - no console or with console compile-time factor.

Secondly, there are still quite a few prints that go directly to the
system console directly, so those would need to be dealt with before
we could completely consider distributing "console" versions and
"without-console" versions.

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Roger Wickes <rogerwickes at yahoo.com> wrote:
> i think windows people can always start blender from a command prompt
> window, so there is no need for a separate console when started.  Same
> as Linux and Mac folks.
>
> My main use of the terminal window is to watch the sequencer slew thru
> my video. So I usually click Anim, minimize the UI, and watch for the terminal to
> stop changing.
>
>  --Roger
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> ________________________________
> From: Benjamin Tolputt <btolputt at internode.on.net>
> To: joshuawarner32 at gmail.com; bf-blender developers <bf-committers at blender.org>
> Sent: Sun, May 16, 2010 11:20:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Console on Windows Build
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> Joshua Warner wrote:
>> Please forgive me if this has already been discussed.  Given that there is a
>> "console" window type in the Blender 2.52 build, is there a potential for
>> removing the console that launches alongside the main Blender window?  This
>> would make Blender fit in better with other Windows applications and also
>> make it easier to manage multiple separate Blender instances.
>>
>
> So long as the error messages that are thrown into the Windows console
> are available somewhere for us to see when an import goes bad (or
> similar), I think it would be good to do away with it myself.
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