Blender for windows console (dos) window?

rakka rage · Post by **rakka rage** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:18 pm

i just got blender for windows and when i run it a dos/console/python box appears first and then the actual blender window appears..

is there any way to get rid of or disable this extra/useless window?

thanks

SirDude · Post by **SirDude** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:42 pm

No its there incase blender has issues, it will sometimes print error
messages to the console. Just ignore it and put it under the main blender window.

OTO · Post by **OTO** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:39 pm

Useless window the "console"?
You should be slaped by a penguin

rakka rage · Post by **rakka rage** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:55 pm

i did not mean to insult the penguin and his console... however... yes this console is useless and just takes up space... on the taskbar and in my task switching mechanism... it allows no input, and errors it reports

"Using Python version 2.4
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback"

could easily be reported using a dialog box? no one else wishes there was an option to get rid of or hide it? oh well thanks anyway

poutsa · Post by **poutsa** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:29 pm

...another option is to Press and Hold ALT Button and then Tabstop Button...to Open or Close the Console Window or to Jump to other Opening Applications so you can jump between these!

SeeYA

Vassilios Boucer

mchs3d · Post by **mchs3d** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:31 am

No, the window cannot be removed. It's part of the code, and removing it would take a literal rewrite of the entire system. Sorry, but you'll just have to get used to it like the rest of us.

Post by **stiv** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:23 am

is there any way to get rid of or disable this extra/useless window?

Another classic case of assuming everyone uses an application the same way you do!

Python scripts use the window to write all sorts of interesting and useful things. Not just detailed error messages, but things like progress messages when running importers and exporters. You would not want to close dozens of pop-ups from a long running script!

If your worst problem is an extra button on your taskbar, life ain't bad.

homebody · Post by **homebody** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:30 am

thought it would be cool to have a console inside blender...
maybe as a new window type...

this separate console window makes blender look less 'professional' imho. But the coders are progressing so fast on the other side... I really don't have enough courage to ask for this kind of feature...

malCanDo · Post by **malCanDo** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:53 am

> thought it would be cool to have a console inside blender...
maybe as a new window type..

Now, that WOULD be cool! Especially when debugging Pythons scripts etc.

I think there is an option in Windows ( and probably other OS's ) API to open a window as hidden, maybe this could be an option after all.

Personally, I agree with it making Blender look a little bit less professional.

I'm used to it now, but it used to really bug me.

Mal

z3r0_d · Post by **z3r0_d** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 7:42 am

mchs3d wrote:No, the window cannot be removed. It's part of the code, and removing it would take a literal rewrite of the entire system. Sorry, but you'll just have to get used to it like the rest of us.

http://blender.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=31015#31015

Ryz · Post by **Ryz** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:04 pm

Or make a shortcut to blender.exe and set the property of the shortcut to start minimized... Minimizes the console, but has no effect on the main window.

MC Escher · Post by **MC Escher** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 12:03 am

Or make it so that you can minimize the window to the system tray? Then you can always bring it up when you wonder wether it says something interesting, but it won't bother you either.

z3r0_d · Post by **z3r0_d** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 2:36 am

MC Escher wrote:Or make it so that you can minimize the window to the system tray? Then you can always bring it up when you wonder wether it says something interesting, but it won't bother you either.

considering that the console window isn't directly written into blender, I don't think that would be trivial

I'd much rather that "console" became a window type like in one of the tuhopuu versions.

poutsa · Post by **poutsa** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:18 pm

Download this from here:
If you dont like the Windows Console!
http://p212.ezboard.com/fnendowingsmira ... 2642.topic

and place the 2 Exe files Blender only .exe and Tray in your Blenders Directory so Blender starts without Console Window if you Start from this Exe´s!!
If you Start Blender Tray.exe ....you see in the Taskbar a Symbol Blender logo if you click then you see the console!
but i dont use this because i need the Console Window!!Usefull!!!
Or i use only Tray.exe

seeYa

Vassilios

ZanQdo · Post by **ZanQdo** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 11:42 pm

ARRG leave the console alone and wish you know how to use it someday