jeffslists wrote:

Right now I have a simple speech application which compiles as a dialog-based application. I have no idea how to send output to the console from a dialog-based app. For now I've resorted to sending output to an edit box. (Sending output to the edit box was much more complicated than I expected. I spent two hours trying to figure out just how to automatically scroll the damn thing.)

I would rather send trace output to the console/stdout than use an edit box. I could create a new project in MS VC 6.0 as a console based application, which would give me easy access to the console, but I

do

not know windows programming well enough to restructure the speech app .

Here is a link to the app. I am working with: *SAPI 5.0 Tutorial I: An Introduction to SAPI* http://www.generation5.org/content/2001/sr00.asp

Is there anyone here who can give me hand?

Gerald's reply reminded me that I'd faced the same issue using Rational Visual Test. There were 2 ways I found to get access to a console from a dialog based app. You can create a named pipe wrapper. See the following article: http://www.codeguru.com/console/dualmode.html

Or you could go down the AllocConsole route as Gerald mentioned. Here's a cut of proof of concept code I used in Visual Test Basic which illustrates that route:

'winbase.h macro STD_INPUT_HANDLE = -10 macro STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE = -11 macro STD_ERROR_HANDLE = -12 macro FILE_TYPE_UNKNOWN = &h0000 macro FILE_TYPE_DISK = &h0001 macro FILE_TYPE_CHAR = &h0002 macro FILE_TYPE_PIPE = &h0003 macro FILE_TYPE_REMOTE = &h8000

declare function AllocConsole% lib "kernel32.dll" () declare function FreeConsole% lib "kernel32.dll" () declare function GetStdHandle& lib "kernel32.dll" (hStd&) ' STD_?_HANDLE, ? = INPUT, OUTPUT, or ERROR declare function GetFileType& lib "kernel32.dll" (osfHandle&) declare function WriteFile& lib "kernel32.dll" (hFile&, szWriteBuffer$, sizeWriteBuffer&, ytesWritten as pointer to long, overlap as pointer to long)

declare function CreateProcess& lib "kernel32.dll" alias "CreateProcessA" (lpApplicationName$, lpCommandLine$, lpProcessAttributes as SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES, lpThreadAttributes as SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES, bInheritHandles&, dwCreationFlags&, lpEnvironment as any, lpCurrentDirectory$, lpStartupInfo as STARTUPINFOA, lpProcessInformation as PROCESS_INFORMATION) declare function CloseHandle lib "kernel32.dll" (hObject as long) as long

macro CRLF = chr(10) + chr(13) macro NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS = &H00000020

type PROCESS_INFORMATION ' The PROCESS_INFO structure is used by hProcess as long ' the CreateProcessA function to return hThread as long ' information about the newly created process dwProcessId as long ' The two handles that are returned in this dwThreadId as long ' structure are open handles to the new end type ' process and its primary thread

type STARTUPINFOA ' The STARTUPINFOA structure allows cb as long ' the CreateProcessA function to control lpReserved as long ' many aspects of the creation process lpDesktop as long lpTitle as long dwX as long dwY as long dwXSize as long dwYSize as long dwXCountChars as long dwYCountChars as long dwFillAttribute as long dwFlags as long wShowWindow as short cbReserved2 as short lpReserved2 as long hStdInput as long hStdOutput as long hStdError as long end type

dim osfSTDOUT&, text$, pi as PROCESS_INFORMATION, si as STARTUPINFOA const STATEMENT$ = "How am I doing?" + chr(10) + chr(13)

AllocConsole osfSTDOUT = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE) if FILE_TYPE_CHAR = GetFileType(osfSTDOUT) then WriteFile(osfSTDOUT, STATEMENT, len(STATEMENT), Null, Null) sleep 3 CreateProcess(null, "c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe", null, null, FALSE, _ NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, 0, "C:.", si, pi) sleep 10 endif CloseHandle(pi.hProcess) CloseHandle(pi.hThread) FreeConsole

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