Hiding Console Windows

pspringer57 · Post by **pspringer57** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 2:58 pm

Hello,

I am running on Wondows XP and trying to start an application on windows without having the console window appear. The hideConsoleWindows command does not seem to have an effect. Any thoughts? Here is my code:

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on mouseUp
   put "start java -jar 'C:/Documents and Settings/pspringer/ganymedeWorkspace/IPtest/bin/QueryController.jar'" into myShell 
   replace "'" with quote in myShell 
   put myShell
   set the hideConsoleWindows to true
   get shell(myShell) 
   put it
end mouseUp

-Paul

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:31 pm

Hi Paul,

I have no idea what's going on, but try to add a line and see if that helps:

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on mouseUp 
   put "start java -jar 'C:/Documents and Settings/pspringer/ganymedeWorkspace/IPtest/bin/QueryController.jar'" into myShell 
   replace "'" with quote in myShell 
  ### !!! Windows path delimiter!
   replace "/" with "\" in myShell
   ### !!!
   put myShell 
   set the hideConsoleWindows to true 
   get shell(myShell) 
   put it 
end mouseUp

Best from germany

Klaus

pspringer57 · Post by **pspringer57** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:54 pm

Thanks for the suggestion Klaus. I tried it, but my command tool window is still popping up. I am starting to think I have to approach this from the java side. The command tool window has a little java icon on the left hand side of the window bar, where you would normally see an icon of a command tool with a "C:\" in it. So java seems to have it's fingers in the process even at that level.

-Paul

Janschenkel · Post by **Janschenkel** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 7:05 pm

Try removing the 'start' bit from your command line.

Jan Schenkel.

pspringer57 · Post by **pspringer57** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:37 pm

I have managed to get the result I want by adding "/min" to the windows command, starting the window minimized. I believe that removing "start" will cause the Rev app to lose control until the windows application terminates, which is not what I want.