Win: Add launcher to hide the console window flash

This patch fixes a long-standing complaint from users:
the console window shortly flashing when they start
blender.

This is done by adding a new executable called
blender-launcher.exe which starts blender.exe while
hiding the console.

Any command line parameters given to blender-launcher
will be passed on to blender.exe so it'll be a drop
in replacement.

Starting blender.exe on its own will still function as
a proper console app so no changes required here for
users that use blender for batch processing.

Notable changes:

Registering blender (-R switch) will now register
blender-launcher as the preferred executable.

This patch updates the installer and updates the
shortcuts to start blender-launcher.exe rather
than blender.exe

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11094

Reviewed by: brecht, harley

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/blenlib/intern/winstuff.c b/source/blender/blenlib/intern/winstuff.c
index 333b6783087..3aa61d1fec5 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenlib/intern/winstuff.c
+++ b/source/blender/blenlib/intern/winstuff.c
@@ -94,9 +94,9 @@ void BLI_windows_register_blend_extension(const bool background)
   GetModuleFileName(0, BlPath, MAX_PATH);
 
   /* Replace the actual app name with the wrapper. */
-  blender_app = strstr(BlPath, "blender-app.exe");
+  blender_app = strstr(BlPath, "blender.exe");
   if (blender_app != NULL) {
-    strcpy(blender_app, "blender.exe");
+    strcpy(blender_app, "blender-launcher.exe");
   }
 
   /* root is HKLM by default */