wxWidgets GUI + Console/Emulating a Console (wxTextCtrl?)

Question

I have a wxWidgets GUI program, and I would like to have a standard console window attached to it for stdout/etc. to go to.

If someone knows how to do this (a GUI application and and a console window) that would be splendid. However, from looking around, I suspect this isn't directly possible.

Based on this similar thread, I got the impression that this could be simulated with a wxTextCtrl in a separate wxFrame. If this is a good way to do it, are there examples of it being done anywhere? Are there other ways to do this?

EDIT: I am looking to either have (or at least emulate as closely as possible) a console window--so, black background, white characters with fixed-width font, etc.

Answer 1

You can redirect e.g. std::cout to wxTextCtrl using wxStreamToTextRedirector but it doesn't really replace a real console under Windows or a PTY under Unix because only the text output via std::cout will be redirected but not anything printed using printf() or any other functions. If you need the latter, you need to do something platform-specific and in this case you should tell which platform(s) are you using and what exactly do you need to do.

Answer 2

I recomend 'upgrading' from stdout to the wxWidgets logging classes, which are way more flexible. Here is an overview.