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alandefreitas / matplotplusplus

Matplot++: A C++ Graphics Library for Data Visualization 📊🗾
https://alandefreitas.github.io/matplotplusplus/
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Prevent console window to open in GUI applications on Windows #377

Closed geral-victor closed 11 months ago

geral-victor commented 11 months ago

Fix for https://github.com/alandefreitas/matplotplusplus/issues/376

On Windows, in a GUI app using this library, a console window gets opened when using _popen. It seems (SO reference here) that the only way to avoid this is to use CreateProcess.

The use case that this PR fixes is when you want to use the lib in a GUI app on Windows, to generate figures that you save into files. I think that is what is called non-interactive mode.

geral-victor commented 11 months ago

I am transferring the functions to matplot::detail, and I will update the PR soon following your suggestion. In regards to the interactive mode, it seems to work fine on my end with this modification, but it's not the main mode I use.

alandefreitas commented 11 months ago

Nice

alandefreitas commented 11 months ago

Thanks ! :)