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DMcCunney:
I just heard about another free console enhancer:  Console
-rjbull (June 08, 2008, 02:51 PM)
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Pretty unstable, though - and it's relatively laggy as well, unless you bump down the update timeout and burn CPU cycles. And has problems with some "fullscreen console apps" (like hexit and hiew).-f0dder (June 09, 2008, 06:16 PM)
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It's stable enough here.  I have tabs configured to run CMD.EXE, Windows Powershell, TCC LE, Cygwin bash, and MinGW zsh.  I can also run things like Eric Meyer's VDE editor and Necromancer's DOS Navigator.  I had problems with alpha-blending and transparency, and simply turned that off.  Transparency is eye-candy I don't need in daily use.

And I load Kris Sweger's ANSIPlus in CONFIG.NT for ANSI support in DOS apps, and Jason Hood's ANSICON in CMD.EXE/TCC LE sessions for ANSI support there.  It all works fine in Console 2 tabs.  I haven't found a need to diddle the update settings.

Console 2 doesn't do full screen, but I wouldn't want to.  I have a 19" monitor in 1600x1200 resolution, and prefer everything in a window.

f0dder:
*shrug*, sometimes console2 crashes for me, and that sometimes takes out all the running console apps as well. And by "fullscreen" I didn't mean alt+enter fullscreen, but "GUI console apps" - at least a few of them work very poorly with console2.

If those problems were fixed, it would be a really great app, having tabs certainly beat several open cmd.exe windows :)

DMcCunney:
*shrug*, sometimes console2 crashes for me, and that sometimes takes out all the running console apps as well.-f0dder (June 15, 2008, 04:56 PM)
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Well, yeah, they would be considered child processes of Console, and when the parent croaks, so do the kids.

And by "fullscreen" I didn't mean alt+enter fullscreen, but "GUI console apps" - at least a few of them work very poorly with console2.
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Oh, OK.  The main one I tried that had heartburn was SETEDIT.  The DOS version insisted on running full screen, and could not be resized into a window.  If you installed the DOS version, then copied over the EXE for the Win32 console build, it would resize, but Console didn't like it at all.  That author had no idea what was going on.  He wrote it using a Borland toolkit, and something in the Borland library code did things that mightily confused Console.

If those problems were fixed, it would be a really great app, having tabs certainly beat several open cmd.exe windows :)
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It works well enough here for me to use it regularly. :)

f0dder:
*shrug*, sometimes console2 crashes for me, and that sometimes takes out all the running console apps as well.-f0dder (June 15, 2008, 04:56 PM)
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Well, yeah, they would be considered child processes of Console, and when the parent croaks, so do the kids.-DMcCunney (June 15, 2008, 05:53 PM)
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Nope, Windows doesn't kill child processes when the parent dies. Most of the times when console2 has crashed on me, the child console programs tend to be "orphaned", still running but without any attached console. I guess it might be possible to revive them with some code injection, but meh. Once or twice, I'm pretty sure the children died as well though.


If those problems were fixed, it would be a really great app, having tabs certainly beat several open cmd.exe windows :)
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It works well enough here for me to use it regularly. :)-DMcCunney (June 15, 2008, 05:53 PM)
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It just sucks having a crash when you're in the middle of doing a software build - ugh >-<

rjbull:
Here's another one: ColorConsole, freeware from the author of the Q-Dir file manager.  Won't automatically load Tame-DOS, but has tabbed windows.

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