[Scummvm-devel] Text output console on Win32

[Travis Howell]

The console window has always been enabled in Windows version of ScummVM, 
although I added option for console-less version in past via define 
(NO_CONSOLE) when compiling.
If there are still pointless warnings confusing users, they should be 
switched to debugs. Warnings should only be reported is there is problem or 
missing feature, etc..

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James 'Ender' Brown" <ender at scummvm.org>
> The console window was disabled at one point, and it made bugreporting
> irritating.(although stderr/stdout di get redirected to a file if the
> console is disabled, most users don't know about it or where it is).
>
> I prefer it there. It WAS more neccessary when the debugger was cmd-line
> based, mind you, and a lot of the current error content should be moved
> to GUI dialogs. But when walking a clueless user through something, the
> console window can be just too essential.
>
> On the other hand, for the next release we also need to clean up the
> mentioned warning spews :)
>
> - Ender
>
>
> On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 03:54 +0200, Ori Avtalion wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As some of you may or may not know, the Win32 release binary of ScummVM
>> opens a console window in addition to the regular one.
>> The window basically catches everything directed to stdout. It is
>> something SDL creates and, at the moment, cannot be disabled.
>>
>> Should the general user see this window? There are two answers:
>> 1) Yes. The developers aren't expected to play-test every game on every
>> platform (Make that just Windows). They potentially encountered more
>> bugs, and generate more warning and error messages. We appriciate their
>> reports.
>>
>> 2) No! For one, I'm sick and tired of the users coming to #scummvm
>> reporting on all those generic warnings they're receivings, which don't
>> really represent bugs. Also, some of them receive them but don't report
>> anything back to the developers. They shouldn't be seeing the window at
>> the first place. It probably annoys them.
>>
>> It's worthy to note that DOSBox also features such a window. I have no
>> knowledge of other programs.
>>
>> Share your thoughts.
>>
>> salty-horse
>>
>>
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> James 'Ender' Brown <ender at scummvm.org>
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