Hiding the CMD Window/Ruby Interpreter with Win32API

[Zach Dennis]

I spent the last hour figuring out how to hide the cmd.exe (dos) window/ruby
interpreter when running my ruby script. I didn't see any direct answers to
this question so here is how I got it to work.


require 'Win32API'

getConsoleWindow = Win32API.new("kernel32" , "GetConsoleWindow" , [] , 'L')
ptr_to_console = getConsoleWindow.call()
wndConsole = Win32API.new( "user32" , "ShowWindow" , ['p' , 'i'] , 'i' )
bl = wndConsole.call( ptr_to_console , 1 )


To do a quick test you can do:


require 'Win32API'
require 'tk'

getConsoleWindow = Win32API.new("kernel32" , "GetConsoleWindow" , [] , 'L')
ptr_to_console = getConsoleWindow.call()
wndConsole = Win32API.new( "user32" , "ShowWindow" , ['p' , 'i'] , 'i' )
wndConsole.call( ptr_to_console , 1 )
Tk.mainloop