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Re: Blind people using setup.exe?


On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Chris January wrote:

> Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> > I think having a spurious console appear and then disappear is not very
> > friendly.  I have considered having it do a messagebox with the --help
> > output, which I guess is better than what we have now.
>
> You can use AttachConsole (ATTACH_PARENT_PROCESS) to attach to the parent
> process console. If the parent process does not have a console the call will
> fail and you can popup a message box instead. IMHO this is the most
> user-friendly way of doing things.

Incidentally, ATTACH_PARENT_PROCESS isn't defined in w32api.  I'll need to
send a bug report to the main list, I suppose...
	Igor
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