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lars <lti@delfi.dk> schreef in berichtnieuws
7tsso1$94v$1@news.inet.tele.dk...
> Hi,
>
> I want to grab the textcontent of an active DOS box.
>
> - what i DONT want is a solution that "pipes" data another way - like:
>
> dir > data.dat
>
> since this wont work with an active application - ex EDIT.EXE or another
> program running until user exits the program.
>
> What i would like is to "poll" the DOS box from my application - and get
the
> ex. 80*25 characters - and ex. display this in another way in my GUI
> application.

/////////////////////////////////

#include <windows.h>

VOID main(void)

    HANDLE hStdout;
    SMALL_RECT srctReadRect;
    CHAR_INFO chiBuffer[160]; // [2][80];
    COORD coordBufSize;
    COORD coordBufCoord;
    BOOL fSuccess;

    /*
     * Get a handle of the STDOUT screen buffer to copy from and
    */

    hStdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
    if (hStdout == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE){
        /*error code*/
    }
    /* Set the source rectangle. */
    srctReadRect.Top = 0;    /* top left: row 0, col 0  */
    srctReadRect.Left = 0;
    srctReadRect.Bottom = 1; /* bot. right: row 1, col 79 */
    srctReadRect.Right = 79;
    /* The temporary buffer size is 2 rows x 80 columns. */
    coordBufSize.Y = 2;
    coordBufSize.X = 80;
    /*
     * The top left destination cell of the temporary buffer is
     * row 0, col 0.
     */
    coordBufCoord.X = 0;
    coordBufCoord.Y = 0;
    /* Copy the block from the screen buffer to the temp. buffer. */
    fSuccess = ReadConsoleOutput(
       hStdout,        /* screen buffer to read from       */
       chiBuffer,      /* buffer to copy into              */
       coordBufSize,   /* col-row size of chiBuffer        */

       coordBufCoord,  /* top left dest. cell in chiBuffer */
       &srctReadRect); /* screen buffer source rectangle   */
    if (! fSuccess){
        /*error code*/
    }

}


/////////////////////////////////

/////////////////////////////////

typedef struct _CHAR_INFO {
    union {
        WCHAR UnicodeChar;
        CHAR   AsciiChar;
    } Char;
    WORD Attributes;
} CHAR_INFO, *PCHAR_INFO;


> Can anyone tell me if this is possible ? - im using CreateProcess to
launch
> the external application, the dos application will always be
"windowized" -
> not a fullscreen box.

> I have looked at AllocConsole....but well...i dont really get the idea of
> this.

AllocConsole can't start a application. CreateProcess is the one you need.