VisualD Console WIndow Disappears

[Alf P. Steinbach]

On 15.02.2012 08:27, RedShift wrote:
> So, I'm just starting to get into D, using the extension for VS called
> Visual D. Is there any way to stop the console from disappearing like in
> C++? Like C + F5 (which doesn't seem to work). Or like a getline?

This absolutely seems like a bug in Visual D, as does the resource 
include path thing.

Apart from changing the source code, which I guess you have considered 
and don't want to do, you still have these two more normal options:

   * Run the program from the Windows command line <g>, or

   * Set a breakpoint on the closing brace of `main`, and run
     the program in the debugger (e.g. keypress [F5]). When it
     hits the breakpoint at the end, use [Alt Tab] to go back
     to the program's console window.

For the first option, note that you can right click an editor tab in 
Visual Studio and fire up an Explorer window for that folder.

 From the Explorer window it's then a very short journey to a command 
prompt: hold down Shift and right-click the relevant folder (I guess 
that would be a Debug binaries folder), and in Windwoes 7 choose "Open 
command window here".


Cheers & hth.,

- Alf