Console / CMD embed

[neosk]

CTRL+O (like middnight commander) would show a console hook from CMD/Powershell. Would be a cool feature to have!

[Hacker]

Hello neosk,
Assign Ctrl-O to the command cm_ExecuteDOS.

HTH
Roman

[neosk]

Hello neosk,
Assign Ctrl-O to the command cm_ExecuteDOS.

HTH
Roman

that opens a new window. The idea is to have it in the same window. Hence the Suggestion. if the _ob could be hooked through winApi to some area in TC, it would be sweet.

[Sir_SiLvA]

No, not possible under Windows.
Use Norton Commander (Dos Version) for that

[neosk]

No, not possible under Windows.
Use Norton Commander (Dos Version) for that

any more programming-experienced response than "It cannot be done" ?
Because firing up cmd/powershell as a background process by an app with its output buffer being redirected to its parent process' window handle by windows API sounds a little bit more plausible than "it cannot be done"

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42xktt3

so, please, don't tell me it's impossible

[Balderstrom]

It can be done. DoubleCMD does it.

[Sir_SiLvA]

any more programming-experienced response than "It cannot be done" ?
Because firing up cmd/powershell as a background process by an app with its output buffer being redirected to its parent process' window handle by windows API sounds a little bit more plausible than "it cannot be done"

If you have no clue then why do you ask at all.... and where Do i state its impossible? You asked if it can be done with TC as TC is now and the answer is no...
(sorry Hacker I know but I could have been more unfriendly here)
And Implementing it, is a waste of time as Dos is dying out - Windows is a 100% Gui-OS not like Linux...

[Hacker]

neosk,

The idea is to have it in the same window.

Well, you could try TConsole or TotalConsole.

HTH
Roman

[Balderstrom]

I take it Sir Silva doesn't do any scripting whatsoever. Else he might realize a cmd prompt can be used for pretty much anything, CMD.exe, WSCript, starting point for powershell. Launch any program. Enumerate your file system, quicker than any gui tool will.

Even AMD's CCC/Radeon Catalyst installer uses the cmd prompt for a few things

Having an actual CMD Prompt in TC would be far more useful than it's current "bottom command-line".

And having a CMD Prompt in TC that could actually utilize TC's internal "Button" variables would be near perfect.

[Balderstrom]

I couldn't get TConsole or TotalConsole (maybe both) to work under Win7 x64, and they didn't work under Win2K either.

[ghisler(Author)]

Try my recompiled version of TotalConsole (32-bit only):
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=171333#171333

[neosk]

any more programming-experienced response than "It cannot be done" ?
Because firing up cmd/powershell as a background process by an app with its output buffer being redirected to its parent process' window handle by windows API sounds a little bit more plausible than "it cannot be done"

If you have no clue then why do you ask at all.... and where Do i state its impossible? You asked if it can be done with TC as TC is now and the answer is no...
(sorry Hacker I know but I could have been more unfriendly here)
And Implementing it, is a waste of time as Dos is dying out - Windows is a 100% Gui-OS not like Linux...

you stated it here:

No, not possible under Windows.

and kiiinda interesting point of view you have there on a shell in windows.
Ever wondered why MS created powershell? One would only guess that they didn't fiddle with it just because they didn't have anything better to do.
example: I find it rather faster to do network related operations via commandline in windows than click them through. Having the possibility to use it within tcmd is appealing. And that's just a tip of the iceberg you see in powershell
And hence the request in "Suggestion Forum"

anyway, thanks Ghisler for providing tconsole, though I didn't manage to fire it up You think you could possibly make something like this into some future version?

[petermad]

Well, you could try TConsole or TotalConsole.

TConsole hasn't worked in the last many version of TC.