Re: [hatari-devel] Hatari debug mode

[Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 31/07/2025 à 17:21, Christian Zietz a écrit :

Eero Tamminen schrieb:

And it works the same when Hatari is build as Windows GUI app (the 
default) or as CLI app (what you do)?

I'm not sure I get the question. Of course, it does not work the same; this is precisely the point why I modify Hatari to be a console application. Perhaps, the following table clears things up:

Hi

regarding this console issues, do you know if there's a way to detect in which "context" Hatari was launched ? ie from an already opened console or by clicking on its icon (or using windows menu to launch it) ?

If we could know how it was started, maybe we could adapt the behaviour on run time and at least avoid this new console that gets opened when there's already one.

Neither choice is 100% optimal, but my patch suits my use-case way better.

I guess in general starting applications from console is nowadays really 
rare in Windows, much more so than in Linux [1].  So opening a new 
console window on Windows when needed is not a problem for most people.

Well, I launch Hatari exclusively from the console; hence, I find this separate window unbearably annoying. In particular, the separate window automatically closes when Hatari quits. So, I loose all output, unless I copy-paste it before quitting Hatari. In contrast, when Hatari re-uses my existing console window, I can use its scroll-back buffer, long after Hatari has quit. Then again, I'm tech-savvy enough to just patch the required change into Hatari with a hex editor when I use a release binary.

However, there's the Hatari use-case of redirecting Hatari trace etc 
output to a file.  Will opening of a new console window interrupt that, 
and completely loose rest of the output when the new window is closed at 
Hatari exit?

Right now, "hatari -W" prevents the redirection of Hatari output into a file, because you freopen all the standard handles. With your recent patch, this will now also happen if the user presses AltGr+Pause.

Regards
Christian

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