[fpc-devel] gui console in windows

[Florian Klaempfl]

Rimgaudas Laucius 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.

You can simply create a wingui unit which is e.g. graph based and which 
redirects input/output.