🚀 go-pugleaf

I recently converted a commandline application to a GUI application.
Now it would be nice to display all the cout's in a commandline window 
for debugging purposes.

I found some code to do just that. The code is more or less the same on 
different sources in the internet, and they all say it runs in MSVC. I 
don't see any reason why it souldn't work in Broland.

It opens that commandline window, and I don't get any errormessages, but 
it doesnt' print out any of the cout's. Also printf doesn't write to 
that commandline window.

Any hints?
Richard

And here's the code:

class DebugConsole
{
     public:
         DebugConsole();
         ~DebugConsole();

     private:
         bool	m_exists;
};


using namespace std;
typedef long intptr_t;
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
DebugConsole::DebugConsole()
{
     int ret;

	m_exists = ::AllocConsole() != 0;
	if(!m_exists)
		::MessageBox(0, "Couldn't create debug console!", "Error", 
MB_ICONERROR | MB_OK);

	//sync stdin, stdout, stderr fds up with the new console
	//original source: http://www.halcyon.com/ast/dload/guicon.htm
	//changes: removed all warnings by changing types and casting

	// set the screen buffer to be big enough to let us scroll text

	CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO coninfo;
	::GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(::GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), &coninfo);
	coninfo.dwSize.Y = 500;
	::SetConsoleScreenBufferSize(::GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), 
coninfo.dwSize);

	// redirect unbuffered STDOUT to the console
	intptr_t	pStdHandle = 
reinterpret_cast<intptr_t>(::GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE));
	int			hConHandle = _open_osfhandle(pStdHandle, _O_TEXT);
	FILE* pFile = _fdopen(hConHandle, "w");
	*stdout = *pFile;
	ret = setvbuf(stdout, NULL, _IONBF, 0);

	// redirect unbuffered STDIN to the console
	pStdHandle = reinterpret_cast<intptr_t>(::GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE));
	hConHandle = _open_osfhandle(pStdHandle, _O_TEXT);
	pFile = _fdopen(hConHandle, "r");
	*stdin = *pFile;
	ret = setvbuf(stdin, NULL, _IONBF, 0);

	// redirect unbuffered STDERR to the console
	pStdHandle = reinterpret_cast<intptr_t>(::GetStdHandle(STD_ERROR_HANDLE));
	hConHandle = _open_osfhandle(pStdHandle, _O_TEXT);
	pFile = _fdopen(hConHandle, "w");
	*stderr = *pFile;
	ret = setvbuf(stderr, NULL, _IONBF, 0);

	// make cout, wcout, cin, wcin, wcerr, cerr, wclog and clog
	// point to console as well
	ios::sync_with_stdio(true);
     ret = ret;
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
DebugConsole::~DebugConsole()
{
	if(m_exists)
	{
		::FreeConsole();
		m_exists = false;
	}
}