Spawn a Command Line application Window and output log information

[BoQsc]

On Monday, 18 May 2020 at 17:51:54 UTC, BoQsc wrote:
> On Monday, 18 May 2020 at 17:20:17 UTC, BoQsc wrote:
>> It would be great if we could change/customise the icon of the 
>> Command line application that run the HelloWorld application. 
>> But I have a bad feeling that it is probably not possible 
>> without a GUI library.
>
> Forever thankful to Adam D. Ruppe
> It is possible to embed icon into the Windows executable.
> The Original Adam's thread: 
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/enrmidvsfdugqmudokdz@forum.dlang.org
>
> The instructions:
> Download a valid Windows 3.0 icon resource
> Examples: 
> http://files.alexmeub.com.s3.amazonaws.com/other/win98_icons.zip
>
> Download the tools to embed the Icon for the .exe executable.
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip
>
> Create a new text file named whatever.rc with the content 
> similar to this:
>
>> IDI_ICON1       ICON    DISCARDABLE     "iconfil.ico"
>
> Use rcc.exe tool and whatever.rc file to generate whatever.res 
> file.
>> rcc.exe whatever.rc
>
> Use dmd.exe compiler to embed newly created whatever.res file 
> into your .exe file while compiling:
>> dmd.exe whatever.res
>
> You should see that the newly compiled .exe file is now with an 
> Icon.
> And when launched the icon will be used by the Command Prompt.

Also, if you want some kind of Fancy ASCII art in your 
application:

Look at the Google for any ASCII Art generator:  
http://patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=display&f=Elite&t=Hello%20World

Add this line and insert your ASCII art in a writeln function.
> executeShell("chcp 65001");
to your D language program source code

More about chcp can be found here: https://ss64.com/nt/chcp.html
Or here: 
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/chcp


import std.stdio   : write, writeln, readln;
import std.process : executeShell;
void main() {
	executeShell("title HelloWorld");
	executeShell("chcp 65001");
	writeln("Hello, World!");
	writeln("
  ▄ .▄▄▄▄ .▄▄▌  ▄▄▌            ▄▄▌ ▐ ▄▌      ▄▄▄  ▄▄▌  ·▄▄▄▄
██▪▐█▀▄.▀·██•  ██•  ▪         ██· █▌▐█▪     ▀▄ █·██•  ██▪ ██
██▀▐█▐▀▀▪▄██▪  ██▪   ▄█▀▄     ██▪▐█▐▐▌ ▄█▀▄ ▐▀▀▄ ██▪  ▐█· ▐█▌
██▌▐▀▐█▄▄▌▐█▌▐▌▐█▌▐▌▐█▌.▐▌    ▐█▌██▐█▌▐█▌.▐▌▐█•█▌▐█▌▐▌██. ██
▀▀▀ · ▀▀▀ .▀▀▀ .▀▀▀  ▀█▄▀▪     ▀▀▀▀ ▀▪ ▀█▄▀▪.▀  ▀.▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀•

");


	string line;
	while ((line = readln()) !is null)
	        write(line);
}