hide cmd window

[NewUserHa]

hide the cmd windows for convenient.
thanks

[altendky]

I think this is simple, just gui_scripts rather than console_scripts. But Windows is terrible. If you do that then even when you run from an existing terminal you won't get to see any output. This means you lose --help and any diagnostic output. So I understand the desire and share the interest in a tidy experience but given how finicky pyqt5-tools is in practice etc I'm hesitant to change this right now. I'll leave this open though in case I (or someone else) can come up with a good plan to help with this. A simple one would be to duplicate the entry_points under both console and GUI types with a little different name or such.

[NewUserHa]

I found:

1. pyqt5designer.exe or designer.exe is ok without console windows after opened
2. orange-canvas.exe can archieve both run without console and return help if -h. hope you find out how they implement.

[altendky]

So what programs are you getting console windows for if not pyqt5designer.exe and designer.exe? And do you have a link for orange-canvas.exe?

[NewUserHa]

not sure if orange has that ability now because it's in anaconda.
orange3 from anaconda.

pyshell.exe has a window which is a blocking point of its gui program. but pyqt5designer.exe and designer.exe is created by subprocess.

[altendky]

https://github.com/biolab/orange3/blob/64e340fe431f4c65c20231b50d7619dce37ef67c/setup.py#L93-L95

I'll try to find time to try this out and see what it does. But I'm still not clear which programs are doing the thing you dislike.

[NewUserHa]

hm? what programs doing dislike?

[altendky]

You have reported an issue here. Something about some console windows you would rather not have. The only particular programs you mentioned (from pyqt5-tools) are pyqt5designer.exe and designer.exe about which you said: "ok without console windows after opened". I read that as those two .exe files do not have a problem. So, I don't understand which programs you are having a problem with.

[NewUserHa]

oh, I thought "it's ok without console windows after it opened" could mean 'it's safe to close console window after it opened'.

pyqt5designer.exe and designer.exe will leave a useless console window after qt designer opened by double-clicking.
and it's safe to close the window. so I say it's better not to show that window at all.

[altendky]

I agree that when launching by double clicking a file it would be nice to not have the console window. It would also be nice to have console output in the shell, for --help and for diagnostics, when run from a terminal. I'll look at orange3 to observe what it does and if it can handle both I'll see if I can figure out how.

[NewUserHa]

not very sure orange3 can do it!

also I saw some program use .py and .pyw to distinguish this problem