Windows Console API Problem

Question

i m traying to learn about the WindowsConsole API .. so i was testing the "CreatePseudoConsole()" function in the code . and it said that the function is undefined . can u help me please.

Rm:
functions like "SetConsoleWindowInfo()" work properly .

Answer 1

After posting my first response I found articles like Microsoft Developing a Pseudo-Console for Next Windows 10 Version. So Pseudo-Consoles are a major new development. There are instructions for working with them in:

• Creating a Pseudoconsole session
• Windows Command-Line: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPTY)

I think it will be difficult for beginners to follow those instructions but you can try.

Off-topic comment: in the DevBlogs article (above) there is a picture of Admiral Grace Hopper. She is credited as having written the first computer compiler. The first. I actually met her once and I once was in her office but not while she was in it.

Answer 2

See Windows Command-Line: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPTY). It references microsoft/terminal: The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

Unless you understand the need for a Pseudo Console, you do not need CreatePseudoConsole. You do not need it for traditional Windows consoles. Pseudo Consoles are complicated.

Answer 3

Are you sure that you added at beginning

#include <ConsoleApi.h>

and that _WIN32_WINNT is sufficient ?

like before the include :

#define  _WIN32_WINNT   0x0A00