p/invoke and allocconsole

[Guest]

I read in a previous post by Tom Shelton that you can call AllocConsole via p/invoke to allocate a console window to a form application.

I've searched for info on how to do this, but have drawn a blank. Can anybody help me to get this up and running?

FYI, I want input received via a form to be passed to a console application for processing.

Thanks.

 

[Mattias Sjögren]

I've searched for info on how to do this, but have drawn a blank. Can anybody help me to get this up and running?

I don't have any complete sample, but the function takes no parameters
so it should be trivial to use

Declare Function AllocConsole Lib "kernel32.dll" () As Boolean



Mattias

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I read in a previous post by Tom Shelton that you can call
AllocConsole via p/invoke to allocate a console window to a form
application.

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[Guest]

Thanks for the input, i'll give it a go and post the results!