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dESFasado wrote:

>I know maybe this is a so trivial question. I've recently moved from delphi to builder c++ and found out that's not that simple to use the console;
>
>I've search on google many code snippets that'll do the work using printf, cout and friends but none worked at all.
>
>So my question is simple. Which is the most easiest way to have a console ouput in a gui application using borlnad c++ builder 6 under windows xp?

Three ways to go about it:

1) You could write a console app instead of a gui one. (Change the
Target to console, start the program at main instead of WinMain.)

2) If you really want console output in a gui program, then you need
to create a console.

AllocConsole()
stdin = GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE);
stdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);

3) On the other hand, if you want text output on your gui window, you
could use something like

	switch (message) {
	case WM_PAINT:
		hdc=BeginPaint(hWnd,&ps);
		SetMapMode(hdc,MM_TEXT);
		TextOut(hdc, 70, 50, szMsg1, strlen(szMsg1) );
		TextOut(hdc, 70, 90, szMsg2, strlen(szMsg2) );
		TextOut(hdc, 70, 130, szMsg3, strlen(szMsg3) );
		TextOut(hdc, 70, 150, szMsg4, strlen(szMsg4) );
		EndPaint(hWnd,&ps);
		break;