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Closing Console Quits Entire Program
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System Information
Operating system: Windows 10
Graphics card: GE Force GTX 1050

Blender Version
Broken: 2.79

Short description of error
After toggling the console on, if you exit the console window by clicking the "X" it quits the entire program, losing all of your work.

This is definitely a bug and not a feature, both simple and serious enough to fix. I get that blender is a console program, but you should have access to the readout in a separate rendered window that is safe to close.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Toggle console on. Click "x" to close the window

Event Timeline

Kelly (kiwiwikikwi) created this task.Mar 29 2019, 8:35 PM
Kelly (kiwiwikikwi) updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 29 2019, 8:39 PM
Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Unknown Status.Mar 29 2019, 11:42 PM
Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) claimed this task.
Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) added a subscriber: Brecht Van Lommel (brecht).

Not considered a bug currently. It's not at all simple to fix, basically the solution would be to eliminate the Windows console and implement one inside Blender itself.

Harley Acheson (harley) added a subscriber: Harley Acheson (harley).Mar 31 2019, 9:37 PM

This is just a Windows thing, right? Just removing the "close" button would eliminate all issues with it.

I think you just need to get the handle to the console window:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/124103/how-to-obtain-a-console-window-handle-hwnd

Use that to get the menu on it...
HMENU hMenu = GetSystemMenu ( hwndConsole, FALSE);

Then delete the close button from the menu
DeleteMenu ( hMenu, 6, MF_BYPOSITION); // 'Close'

Harley Acheson (harley) added a comment.Apr 1 2019, 2:14 AM

A patch that does this can be found here:

https://developer.blender.org/D4627

Regnas (Regnas) added a subscriber: Regnas (Regnas).Apr 1 2019, 2:22 AM
In T63106#651400, @Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) wrote:

the solution would be to eliminate the Windows console and implement one inside Blender itself.

I like that idea a lot.
Never understood why that window exists outside of blender.