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How to toggle the console with a button in a GUI program

When I run my program (.exe file), the console automatically turns on. I don't want to get rid of it, but I want to have the ability to hide it. I know that I can completely get rid of the console while coverting .py to .exe with the auto-py-to-exe module.

Is there a way to turn the console on and off with a button, without closing the program or anything like that? I am using the PySimpleGui Library for the gui if that changes anything.

The Button:

Console toggle button

Solution

  • Try to use pywin32 library to hide/show the console, and it work only for WINDOWS.

    import win32gui, win32con
import PySimpleGUI as sg

console = win32gui.GetForegroundWindow()

sg.theme("DarkBlue3")
sg.set_options(font=("Courier New", 12))

layout = [[sg.Button( "Console ON/OFF", key="-CONSOLE-")]]
window = sg.Window('Title', layout, finalize=True)

view_console = True
while True:

    event, values = window.read()
    if event == sg.WINDOW_CLOSED:
        break
    elif event == "-CONSOLE-":
        view_console = not view_console
        option = win32con.SW_SHOW if view_console else win32con.SW_HIDE
        win32gui.ShowWindow(console, option)

window.close()