Question

I wrote this little program to illustrate my problem :

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
   int i = 0;
   while(1)
   {
       std::cout << i++ << std::endl;
       Sleep(1000);
   }
    return 0;
}

So this simple program will stop counting if you hold the vertical scroll bar ( to watch back logs or whatever …).

Is there a way to avoid this ?

Cheers

Answer 1

Not really. What happens is that holding the scrollbar prevents the application to write any new output to the console, so it eventually blocks on flushing std::cout. This is due to how Windows implements the console and can not be avoided.