Elysian Shadows

Posted: **Mon May 31, 2010 3:31 am**

So I've been wanting to get a console window working with SDL for quite some time now, and I've gone through a few google searches, but can't really find a concise answer.

So does anyone know how to get it working? Or have a link to an article/tutorial on it?

Posted: **Mon May 31, 2010 8:59 am**

XianForce wrote:So I've been wanting to get a console window working with SDL for quite some time now, and I've gone through a few google searches, but can't really find a concise answer.

So does anyone know how to get it working? Or have a link to an article/tutorial on it?

If by "console window" you mean the terminal that comes up when you sometimes start the app, you can't really use it, primarily due to the fact that stdout and stderr are both redirected to files by SDL. If you mean an in-game console, lazyfoo has a tutorial on text input in SDL: http://www.lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/lesson23/index.php

Posted: **Mon May 31, 2010 11:31 am**

Ginto8 wrote:
XianForce wrote:So I've been wanting to get a console window working with SDL for quite some time now, and I've gone through a few google searches, but can't really find a concise answer.

So does anyone know how to get it working? Or have a link to an article/tutorial on it?
If by "console window" you mean the terminal that comes up when you sometimes start the app, you can't really use it, primarily due to the fact that stdout and stderr are both redirected to files by SDL. If you mean an in-game console, lazyfoo has a tutorial on text input in SDL: http://www.lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/lesson23/index.php

I meant the terminal. And I know it's rerouted, but I thought there was a way to 're'reroute it... hmmm

Posted: **Mon May 31, 2010 12:14 pm**

If you're using Visual Studio you can set it up to use the console window.

Go to project->properties and under configuration properties go to linker then system.
Where it says "SubSystem", change that to "Console (/SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE)".

That will make a console window come up along with the SDL window and you can use iostream or whatever you want.

Posted: **Mon May 31, 2010 12:22 pm**

XianForce wrote:
Ginto8 wrote:
XianForce wrote:So I've been wanting to get a console window working with SDL for quite some time now, and I've gone through a few google searches, but can't really find a concise answer.

So does anyone know how to get it working? Or have a link to an article/tutorial on it?
If by "console window" you mean the terminal that comes up when you sometimes start the app, you can't really use it, primarily due to the fact that stdout and stderr are both redirected to files by SDL. If you mean an in-game console, lazyfoo has a tutorial on text input in SDL: http://www.lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/lesson23/index.php
I meant the terminal. And I know it's rerouted, but I thought there was a way to 're'reroute it... hmmm

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freopen( "CON", "w", stdout );
freopen( "CON", "w", stderr );

Toss that in there somewhere. Works for output.

Posted: **Mon May 31, 2010 12:44 pm**

If you use codeblocks, the debug build always has the console window, the release build does not

Posted: **Mon May 31, 2010 12:53 pm**

Both visual studio and xcode still allow virtual terminals for standard output with the correct type of project...

Posted: **Mon May 31, 2010 1:25 pm**

GyroVorbis wrote:Both visual studio and xcode still allow virtual terminals for standard output with the correct type of project...

Wow... Are you kidding me?

I just tried it and it worked.

I tried it like a few months ago and got a BSOD... lol

Well thanks for that then

Posted: **Mon May 31, 2010 3:50 pm**

XianForce wrote: I tried it like a few months ago and got a BSOD... lol

there's no way your program did that, there's something else going on there

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