[fpc-devel] Windows Console App

[Alexander Grotewohl]

you're not using the crt unit are you? first because i think it doesn't support utf8 and second because i think you can cause this by doing "if keypressed.." without then doing readkey before exit.

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Subject: [fpc-devel] Windows Console App

Anyone ever experience making a console app (cross-platform), but, on windows when the app finishes, it appears to have put an uppercase C or D in the keyboard buffer, so the Prompt now has C:\>D<cursor>  ???

Every time I run my app, be it show help screen and end, or actually execute - when it finishes I end up with a letter sitting at the prompt. (A few months ago, I was having a problem, and it was related to compiling all of the methods with cdecl. That build would leave a stray "C" at the start of the prompt upon exiting. Now, I ran into a new problem where I needed to recompile with -FcUTF8 to track down which units it thought were having a UTF-8 mismatch... it was showing the wrong unit until I used the -FcUTF8 compile option, then it actually showed what file had '<highbit ascii>' strings ... so I switched to #<byte_number> and it compiles, but, the prompts have "D" at the start of them now.    (hopefully I described that understandable).

Environment: Windows XP 32bit
C:\FPC\3.0.4\bin\i386-Win32\fpc.exe

If no one else has experienced/has a solution, I will sit down and bang out test cases until I find what combination (units, code, whatever) is producing this result.

Ozz
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