Is there any easy cross-platform alternative to winapi's getconsolewindow()?

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I can't seem to find any helpful information about a unix-like call that is the equivalent to GetConsoleWindow.

I'm writing an application that calls GetConsoleWindow, the ShowWindow(hwnd, 0) to hide said window. I want to be able to do this on macOS and Linux as well, but I dont know if theres anything like this out there (besides linking to EVERY terminal out there, which isn't very practical).

I should also mention that I'm writing said procedure in C#using .NET Core, writing bindings for the native C/C++ methods.

EDIT: I'm writing bindings for a small UI library written in C, so I'm hiding the console window from a netcoreapp so the UI window is the only one shown. I don't need a full-blown C# api like Xamarin, just the GetConsoleWindow and ShowWindow methods.

What I have tried:

I've search far and wide on Google to no avail.

Posted 3-Jul-18 15:57pm

toma-corwin

Updated 3-Jul-18 20:39pm

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KarstenK · Answer 1 · 2018-07-03T20:14:00

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Solid cross platform development languages and tools are Xamarin, QT or Java. In reading your posting you should inform yourself about Xamarin.

Posted 3-Jul-18 20:14pm

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toma-corwin 4-Jul-18 2:37am

I'll add more info above in a moment, but I'm writing bindings for a small UI library written in C, so I'm hiding the console window from a netcoreapp so the UI window is the only one shown. I don't need a full-blown C# api like Xamarin, just the GetConsoleWindow and ShowWindow methods.