Archive for 29th July 2010

Hide the command console window while running a GUI/Command line program on Windows

While running a command line program or some GUI initiated from command line on Windows, there is always a black console window on the screen. This sometime becomes annoying. For example, when you start the Eric Python IDE on Windows, normally you start it by calling a batch file “eric4.bat” which calls the actual eric4.py script sequentially. Since Eric4 is designed to be a GUI program, the black console window has no use but it is there. To prevent that or hide it, there are several ways. Continue reading ‘Hide the command console window while running a GUI/Command line program on Windows’ »