From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-11-17T04:06:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25600] Re: Snubbing the windows console

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Robert Gill <tyrennias@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <undisclosed-recipients: ;>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 11:05 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:25525] Snubbing the windows console


> I'm writing a small program under Windows using the Ruby and GTK+ mingw32
> ports.  I wrote a small C executable to wrap and this program.  The
> problem is when I run the program it also opens up an empty Windows
> console.  Is there a way to prevent this, or at least to hide the
> console?  Be aware I'm a beginning coder and very unfamiliar with Windows
> programming.

I think that there's a rubyw.exe that will behave the same as
ruby.exe but without the console. Check that out.

Hal