This may be a linux list, but the best windows programmers I've seen are the people who also know unix or unix programming. I'm working on the speech module part of my intelligent jukebox and it seems windows is giving me more problems than expected. I have a problem I'm trying to solve which should be simple. (I haven't done any serious windows programming for about 3 years.)
It sure would be nice if windows adhered more to standards, like giving the programmer access to stdout at all times. I would like to send text to stdout or a console output so I can watch processing of my speech commands in real-time. I could send the output to a file, but then I have to keep reloading in order to watch the output.
Right now I have a simple speech application which compiles as a dialog-based application. I have no idea how to send output to the console from a dialog-based app. For now I've resorted to sending output to an edit box. (Sending output to the edit box was much more complicated than I expected. I spent two hours trying to figure out just how to automatically scroll the damn thing.)
I would rather send trace output to the console/stdout than use an edit box. I could create a new project in MS VC 6.0 as a console based application, which would give me easy access to the console, but I do not know windows programming well enough to restructure the speech app .
Here is a link to the app. I am working with: *SAPI 5.0 Tutorial I: An Introduction to SAPI* http://www.generation5.org/content/2001/sr00.asp
Is there anyone here who can give me hand?
Thanks in advance, Jeff
jeffslists wrote:
This may be a linux list, but the best windows programmers I've seen are the people who also know unix or unix programming. I'm working on the speech module part of my intelligent jukebox and it seems windows is giving me more problems than expected. I have a problem I'm trying to solve which should be simple. (I haven't done any serious windows programming for about 3 years.)
It sure would be nice if windows adhered more to standards, like giving the programmer access to stdout at all times. I would like to send text to stdout or a console output so I can watch processing of my speech commands in real-time. I could send the output to a file, but then I have to keep reloading in order to watch the output.
Right now I have a simple speech application which compiles as a dialog-based application. I have no idea how to send output to the console from a dialog-based app. For now I've resorted to sending output to an edit box. (Sending output to the edit box was much more complicated than I expected. I spent two hours trying to figure out just how to automatically scroll the damn thing.)
I would rather send trace output to the console/stdout than use an edit box. I could create a new project in MS VC 6.0 as a console based application, which would give me easy access to the console, but I do not know windows programming well enough to restructure the speech app .
Here is a link to the app. I am working with: *SAPI 5.0 Tutorial I: An Introduction to SAPI* http://www.generation5.org/content/2001/sr00.asp
Is there anyone here who can give me hand?
For Ethereal we use the following (from gtk/main.c):
-------- /* * If this application has no console window to which its standard * output would go, create one. */ void create_console(void) { if (!has_console && prefs.gui_console_open != console_open_never) { /* We have no console to which to print the version string, so create one and make it the standard input, output, and error. */ if (!AllocConsole()) return; /* couldn't create console */ freopen("CONIN$", "r", stdin); freopen("CONOUT$", "w", stdout); freopen("CONOUT$", "w", stderr);
/* Well, we have a console now. */ has_console = TRUE;
/* Now register "destroy_console()" as a routine to be called just before the application exits, so that we can destroy the console after the user has typed a key (so that the console doesn't just disappear out from under them, giving the user no chance to see the message(s) we put in there). */ atexit(destroy_console); } }
static void destroy_console(void) { if (has_console) { printf("\n\nPress any key to exit\n"); _getch(); FreeConsole(); } } --------
The whole file can be found at
http://anonsvn.ethereal.com/viewcvs/viewcvs.py/trunk/gtk/main.c
Searching MSDN for "AllocConsole" turns up the following, which describe console access in detail:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/bas...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/bas...
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