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Asked: 2026-05-26T07:50:04+00:00

In linux and when installing packages etc. There are some installers that have a

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In linux and when installing packages etc. There are some installers that have a progress bar and a dos window which shows the files being extracted etc. How can i add this window to my C++ Win32 programs so that i can have it showing the tasks im doing? I cannot find any documentation on MSDN.

Question: How can i add a console window (if that’s what its called, sure looks like one) in my program to show the details of the task at hand being done?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You cannot embed a real console window inside another window (although a windowed process can have a separate console window). While it looks like a console window / command prompt, it is just a matter of appearances. What you want to do is create a sub-window/control with similar characteristics as a console window and then redirect the console output from the application(s) being run to append to that sub-window. For more information on how to do redirect the console output in Windows, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190351.

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