[fpc-devel] Windows Console App

[Ozz Nixon]

I will check your suggestions Alexander.

Checked the code, it does if paramcount=0 then show help, then exit from
main begin/end. It does not interact with the keyboard unless instructed to
(its a pascal script engine).

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 3:28 AM Alexander Grotewohl <alex at dcclost.com>
wrote:

> 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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> Alexander Grotewohl
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> *Cc:* Ozz Nixon <ozznixon at gmail.com>
> *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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