How do I open a new console window for a Visual C++ console application?

Question

What I want to do is something like this:

ConsoleWindow1.Print("1");
ConsoleWindow2.Print("2");

When I run the program, two console windows pop up and one gets printed with 1 and the other gets printed with 2. Is there a simple way of doing this?

Answer 1

For console based application there can be only one console per process. You can start two processes and then do some sort of IPC to coordinate with each other

Answer 2

One way I see, to write a console that prints argument given to exe, and write another application that call both with different arguments, I didn't try but may be you can open two by WIN32 functions, see How to Open Console Window in a Win32 Application