Blind people using setup.exe?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 05:50:08PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>Right.  I did manage to get setup access to its parent console's stdout by
>compiling setup as a console application instead of a windowed one.  Once
>setup knows that it doesn't need to print out a message, it calls
>FreeConsole().
>
>This works from both a bash console window and an xterm/pty.  One
>unpleasant side effect of this is that a console window flashes briefly
>and disappears when setup is started from a shortcut.

I think that this behavior is rediscovered every time this issue comes
up.  No, a flashing black window is not acceptable.  A usage window is
the way to go.  Isn't this all in the archives?

cgf