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, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_init_exit.c b/source/blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_init_exit.c
index 56fd51ac6fd..0dcb817ad15 100644
--- a/source/blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_init_exit.c
+++ b/source/blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_init_exit.c
@@ -343,8 +343,13 @@ void WM_init(bContext *C, int argc, const char **argv)
   (void)argv; /* unused */
 #endif
 
-  if (!G.background && !wm_start_with_console) {
-    GHOST_toggleConsole(3);
+  if (!G.background) {
+    if (wm_start_with_console) {
+      GHOST_toggleConsole(1);
+    }
+    else {
+      GHOST_toggleConsole(3);
+    }
   }
 
   BKE_material_copybuf_clear();