Build Windows client console exe (#450) (#631)

* Add Utils support for Windows console

* Avoid GraphicalUI if Windows Console

* Don't show GuiConfig for EXE console

* Add enter-to-exit prompt when EXE console is missing args

* Build syncplayConsole EXE

* Fix isWindowsConsole() check

* Limit stderr->blackhole code to Windows client console EXEs

buildPy2exe.py

@@ -673,9 +673,7 @@ info = dict(
         "icon_resources": [(1, "syncplay\\resources\\icon.ico")],
         'dest_base': "Syncplay"},
     ],
-    console=['syncplayServer.py'],
-    # *** If you wish to make the Syncplay client use console mode (for --no-gui to work) then comment out the above two lines and uncomment the following line:
-    # console=['syncplayServer.py', {"script":"syncplayClient.py", "icon_resources":[(1, "resources\\icon.ico")], 'dest_base': "Syncplay"}],
+    console=['syncplayServer.py', {"script":"syncplayClient.py", "icon_resources":[(1, "syncplay\\resources\\icon.ico")], 'dest_base': "SyncplayConsole"}],
 
     options={
         'py2exe': {

syncplay/ui/ConfigurationGetter.py

@@ -408,10 +408,12 @@ class ConfigurationGetter(object):
                 sys.exit()
 
     def _promptForMissingArguments(self, error=None):
-        if self._config['noGui']:
+        if self._config['noGui'] or utils.isWindowsConsole():
             if error:
                 print("{}!".format(error))
             print(getMessage("missing-arguments-error"))
+            if utils.isWindowsConsole():
+                input(getMessage("enter-to-exit-prompt"))
             sys.exit()
         else:
             from syncplay.ui.GuiConfiguration import GuiConfiguration
@@ -550,7 +552,7 @@ class ConfigurationGetter(object):
         # Arguments not validated yet - booleans are still text values
         if self._config['language']:
             setLanguage(self._config['language'])
-        if (self._config['forceGuiPrompt'] == "True" or not self._config['file']) and not self._config['noGui']:
+        if (self._config['forceGuiPrompt'] == "True" or not self._config['file']) and not self._config['noGui'] and not utils.isWindowsConsole():
             self._forceGuiPrompt()
         self._checkConfig()
         self._saveConfig(iniPath)

syncplay/ui/__init__.py

@@ -1,19 +1,21 @@
 import os
+from syncplay.utils import isWindowsConsole
 
 if "QT_PREFERRED_BINDING" not in os.environ:
     os.environ["QT_PREFERRED_BINDING"] = os.pathsep.join(
         ["PySide6", "PySide2", "PySide", "PyQt5", "PyQt4"]
     )
 
-try:
+if not isWindowsConsole():
+    try:
         from syncplay.ui.gui import MainWindow as GraphicalUI
-except ImportError:
+    except ImportError:
         pass
 from syncplay.ui.consoleUI import ConsoleUI
 
 
 def getUi(graphical=True, passedBar=None):
-    if graphical:
+    if graphical and not isWindowsConsole():
         ui = GraphicalUI(passedBar=passedBar)
     else:
         ui = ConsoleUI()

syncplay/utils.py

@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ def isMacOS():
 def isBSD():
     return constants.OS_BSD in sys.platform or sys.platform.startswith(constants.OS_DRAGONFLY)
 
+def isWindowsConsole():
+    return os.path.basename(sys.executable) == "SyncplayConsole.exe"
 
 def retry(ExceptionToCheck, tries=4, delay=3, backoff=2, logger=None):
     """Retry calling the decorated function using an exponential backoff.
@@ -225,6 +227,28 @@ def blackholeStdoutForFrozenWindow():
         sys.stdout = Blackhole()
         del Blackhole
 
+    elif isWindowsConsole():
+        class Blackhole(object):
+            softspace = 0
+
+            def write(self, text):
+                pass
+
+            def flush(self):
+                pass
+
+        class Stderr(object):
+            softspace = 0
+            _file = None
+            _error = None
+
+            def flush(self):
+                if self._file is not None:
+                    self._file.flush()
+
+        sys.stderr = Blackhole()
+        del Blackhole
+
 
 def truncateText(unicodeText, maxLength):
     try: