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Hide Console Window (No Fast Console Open/Close) - Bandors Jr. - Mar 10, 2014
So I've tried a bunch of ways to hide the window.
IE:
Spoiler (Click to View)
etc etc. But they all flash the console before closing it.
Then I tried MoveWindow()
Code
int main()
{
MoveWindow( GetConsoleWindow(), 0, 0, 0, 0, TRUE);
// do whatever code bla bla bla
return 0;
}I'm very new to C++ and this was just for my Download&Execute project but it was a bitch having the console flash, not to mention a bit suspicious. More of you experience users won't need this, but ya.
* - Sajuuk - Mar 10, 2014
Why not just use WinMain as the entry point? Much easier...
* - Bandors Jr. - Mar 10, 2014
(Mar 10, 2014 10:31 PM)Sajuuk Wrote: Why not just use WinMain as the entry point? Much easier...
IDK, I'm new and this is what worked for me :P
* - jessman420 - Mar 11, 2014
Assuming you use visual studio....
The easiest way to accomplish this is create a new project in visual studio, as a console, and in creation options, make it a win32 project, and tick empty project. Then add your main.cpp and add a winmain for an entry point, in lieu of int main(), like you would do with a console..
This will create a completely hidden (console window only) application with no window flash. This can be used for background processes, key loggers, stubs etc.
* - Qmz_ - Mar 11, 2014
Or just set subsystem to windows and
#pragma comment(linker,"/ENTRY:main")
* - Sajuuk - Mar 11, 2014
(Mar 11, 2014 06:09 AM)jessman420 Wrote: Assuming you use visual studio....
The easiest way to accomplish this is create a new project in visual studio, as a console, and in creation options, make it a win32 project, and tick empty project. Then add your main.cpp and add a winmain for an entry point, in lieu of int main(), like you would do with a console..
This will create a completely hidden (console window only) application with no window flash. This can be used for background processes, key loggers, stubs etc.
I use Code::Blocks and virtually do the same thing.
* - notsteve - Mar 11, 2014
Additionally, you can prevent your hwnd from being enumerated by a message-only window, which will still allow you to have a message loop (use timers & whatnot).
* - dream_man - Apr 14, 2014
I'm using just FreeConsole(); fast and no code :P