I am confused as to what the console window is in Blitz Plus. It looks like "cmd.exe" and it can print data to the screen and request data using the "Input$()" command. But why can't you set the colour of the text in a console using the "Color #,#,#" command (correct me if I am wrong) and why can't it receive input like WaitKey(). Please help.
Thanks
Seb
The console is a dos prompt. It's simple output and input of text.
Thats it.
Cmd.exe is the command prompt, and you can do alot from ther... (Schools are so easy :P)
In its current form ( the last time I checked ) the BlitzPlus console is fairly useless.
The main use for a console mode program would be to make various tools for use by other programs. These tools could then use standard I/O and redirection.
This means you could develop a program that writes output to the screen. If you run it from a command line with
myprog
the output would appear on-screen. But running the same program with
myprog >results.txt
would send the output to a file called results.txt.
But this functionality has not yet been added to BlitzPlus.
Does anybody know if BlitzMax uses consoles and if it does, whether or not you can output the text to a file like Floyd suggested? (Is BlitzMax just a highly updated version of Blitz3D). Will it support GUI components like Blitz+? Thanks