[fpc-devel] gui console in windows

[Peter Vreman]

At 01:07 5-11-2004, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>i am interesting, what do you think about redirecting text streams not to
>windows console, but creating free pascal's own gui console (for example
>implementing it under -WX switch)? I mean to do something like graph unit is
>done now or unit wincrt in Virtual Pascal's rtl. Windows console looks like
>some relict derived from dos. We have problems with keybord drivers and text
>encoding in it (text prepared with windows editor needs to be encoder to dos
>cp when outputing if you want to see national characters properly).
>Different it's implementation in win9x and win2000,xp systems makes these
>problems deeper.

Things like redirection doesn't work anymore.

Nobody will stop you from creating a faster console under Windows. At least 
don't expect anything to be written by the current fpc developpers.


Peter