GUI Integration in Console Applications

Question

I have two independent console applications developed in C ++. I was asked to develop a graphical interface for both of them. In this GUI, I collect some of the parameters needed to run any of these applications. Can anyone give some orientation to integrating console applications with this GUI? Can I run applications from the graphical interface and not see the console? Can events that applications write to the console be redirected to a log file?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

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Answer 5

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Tcl is very portable and will work on many platforms, including Windows. Tcl also comes with a simple GUI toolkit called Tk. Modern versions support theme engines to give them a natural look, so you can make Tk apps pretty close to their native windows.

This post discusses using Tcl / Tk to do the thing you are asking for to some extent.