Redirecting stdout to a console in Qt

[geotdw]

Hi,

I've read mulitple threads related to what I'm looking for, but none answered the questions that I have.

Basically what I want to do is the following,

I have a Qt application that is a GUI. This application will sometimes instead of being executed with a double click (.exe), will be run from the command line with some variables.
Now, if it's run from command line and (argc > 1), then I would like to print messages to this console (Note: not in another window).

Now I noticed that if I don't put CONFIG += console in my .pro, then all my qDebug or printf messages do not get printed. I do not want to run my application as a console application
because when I double click I will get an unwated console window which is not what I want.

I also do not like the way another thread had found the solution where I have to projects, one .com and one .exe and in main according to the no. of arguments decide which one to run.
Another solution that I did not like is attaching a console to the app if arguments is present, because then when I run the app from command line, I get another window that pops up.

Basically what I want to know is, if there is a call that I could do to find out if the app was run form a commandline, and if so then get the console's like processor's id or something and then
redirect all my print messages to that console window (where the application was run from).

thanks

[amleto]

"Basically what I want to know is, if there is a call that I could do to find out if the app was run form a commandline"

No, I don't think so.