system command in background

[asdfwe]

i have a line in my code
system("dir") in a program in dev c++
it causes a seperate window command prompt to open and then it executes.

can we run it in background so that user does not even know of execution of the command

[Zengar]

This doesn't have anything to do with OpenGL. I suggest you ask this question in a C++ forum...

[asdfwe]

it is being used in part of my opengl project .

[Bob]

It doesn't matter if your project uses OpenGL or not. Running a system command in the background is totally irrelevant to OpenGL.

[HenriH]

I agree with Bob; this is unrelated to OpenGL. Try CodeProject.com for example.

But to answer to this question shortly: No, you can't. The system function always opens up a console window displaying the results of the command. You can try using popen, or even better, use the Windows API to get directory contents. Ask from C++ forum for details.

[asdfwe]

thanks Henri H