Re: A DOS box starting Emacs (w32)

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi>]

Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Angelo Graziosi
> <angelo.graziosi@alice.it> wrote:
>
>> But if I add Emacs to the applications bar (mouse-3 on the Emacs icon and
>> then click on "Add this application to the applications bar"), and then I
>> start Emacs from that bar, a DOS box opens behind the Emacs frame.
>
> Modify the shortcut so it runs runemacs.exe, not emacs.exe.

On MS-Windows 7 or later, emacs.exe could automate this by
setting the System.AppUserModel.RelaunchCommand property on its
windows.  It would have to detect whether the property should
refer to emacs.exe or runemacs.exe.  Because runemacs.c sets
start.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE when it calls CreateProcess,
emacs.exe could perhaps call GetConsoleWindow and
IsWindowVisible, or call GetStartupInfo and check wShowWindow.
Some of the necessary functions don't exist in MS-Windows 9X,
so GetProcAddress would have to be used.