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On 7/26/2013 8:27 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:44:32PM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote: > >> Ugly, only half-implemented, but better: a hook-based pseudoconsole >> system for Windows. > > This is what I was holding out for. The last time it came up here, > people seemed vehemently opposed to the idea since implementations that > do this (like the Console app and a couple of libraries floating around) > seem to have to poll the console looking for data and that could result > in data loss. > > I have had code (not mine) sitting in my Cygwin directory for years > which does this but I couldn't 100% convince myself that the detractors > for this idea weren't right. Does your code work around this? I'm also against screen scrapers. That's why I wrote this library: it doesn't poll. It actually intercepts console APIs and implements console handles as pseudohandles, just like Windows <= 7 did, forwarding console API requests to a server. Any console program that works with Windows 7 should work with this library. I'm not aware of any other implementations that use this approach. There's no chance of data loss.
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