Console2 is a Windows console window enhancement. Console2 features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles Console2 development setup ========================== [assumes Visual Studio 2008 is installed] 1. Download latest Boost (http://www.boost.org/users/download/) 2. Extract to "(targetDir)\boost" 3. Download latest WTL (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wtl/files/) 4. Extract to "(targetDir)\wtl" 5. In Visual Studio, Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories: Add to "Include Files" (for both x64 and win32 platforms) - (targetDir)\boost (targetDir)\wtl\Include