🚀 go-pugleaf

I cannot find the old app where I played with both a console and GUI windows 
in an app.

However there is a window associated with the console.  You cannot subclass 
it but you can do some things with it.  For example, here's a 'quicky' that 
moves it around.

.  Ed

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  // can be built from the command line with
  // bcc32 -WCR filename

  #include <windows.h>

  class Console
    {
  public:
    Console();
    ~Console() {}
    operator HWND () const { return console_hwnd; }

  private:
    Console(const Console &);
    Console operator = (const Console &);

    HWND console_hwnd;
    static char new_title[];
    }; // end class Console

  char Console::new_title[] = " ZAB}{NEW TITLE][ABC";

  Console::Console()
    {
    char orig_title[1024];

    // make sure the new title is unique
    *new_title = ' ';

    for (char c = '!';
         FindWindow(NULL, new_title) && (c <= '`');
         ++c)
      {
      *new_title = c;
      }

    GetConsoleTitle(orig_title, sizeof(orig_title));

    if (SetConsoleTitle(new_title))
      {
      Sleep(10); // Give Win9x/WinME time to update the title
      console_hwnd = FindWindow(NULL, new_title);
      SetConsoleTitle(orig_title);
      }
    else
      {
      console_hwnd = NULL;
      }
    } // end Console::Console


  void ShowWindowMovement(HWND hwnd)
    {
    RECT rect;

    GetWindowRect(hwnd, &rect);

    int top = rect.top;
    int high = rect.bottom - top;
    int wide = rect.right - rect.left;

    for (int i = 0, x = rect.left - 20;
         i < 4;
         ++i, x += 5)
      {
      MoveWindow(hwnd, x, top, wide, high, TRUE);
      Sleep(1000);
      }
    } // end ShowWindowMovement

  int main()
    {
    Console cons_info;

    ShowWindowMovement(cons_info);
    return 0;
    }

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