[Joe Forster/STA]

Originally Posted by TippeX

i always wondered why a hybrid type didnt exist.

Hmmm, interesting, never thought of that. Actually, the program, compiled as GUI, can find out what type its parent process is and if it's a console then open a new console or attach itself to the parent's console; there are simple API calls for that. But I know already one problem: launching a GUI program from the console will return at once without waiting for the program to initiailize/send some signal/exit (start /wait <program> helps, though) and there can be more...