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I/O via (Eclipse-) console buggy [message #1759450]

Tue, 11 April 2017 18:25

Ralf Steinhaeusser

Messages: 1
Registered: April 2017

Junior Member

Hey folks!
I just wanted to dive into C/C++ development and installed eclipse and mingw on my PC (Win7 64 bit).

When I do very simple things like

	printf("Please enter a number: ");
	char word[256];
	fgets(word, sizeof(word), stdin);

and I start the binary from the explorer, a command shell shows up and everything acts as it should, but when start the program from the IDE, nothing happens in the so called "interactive console".
I first have to enter something and then the text "Please enter..." appears (afterwards!).

Or this code:

	for (int i=0; i<5; i++) {
		Sleep(1000);
		int data = rand() % 6;
		printf("Val %d = %d\n", i, data);
	}

Doesn't show up until the program finishes. In the windows command shell it works.
Asking Google it appears that Eclipse redirects the console output and ,,, eerh, I didn't understand the rest.

I now tried Visual Studio, and they pop up a "normal" command shell, and everything works fine. Any chance to fix Eclipse on that (very basic) topic?

Thanks,
Ralf

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