System Console won' t rezise on the x axis

hi,
I have a Problem that starts to drive me mad. The window of the Blender System Console doesn’ t rezise it’ s width, which gets really annoying when the Text goes beyond the width of the Window. Even when I click fullscreen, the width of the window stays narrow. Does anyone know how to fix this?
thanks in advance :slight_smile:

I guess you are using a windows version beyond XP…

This is some strange restriction microsoft made - it has nothing to do with blender itself.

Unfortunately there is no good/easy solution to this, the only workaround I found is to

  • open the console (cmd.exe)
  • enter “mode 800”
  • and then start blender from the command line.

Of course you can write a batch file to do this for you to ease the pain of typing…

Thanks for the Reply! you are right, I am using windows 8.1.
I will try that, thank you very much! :slight_smile:

ok, i tried that with the following batch file:
@echo off
mode 800
Start “Blender” “C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\blender.exe”

the cmd does rezise and blender is opened, but when I toggle the System Console (in Blender) it’s still the same issue again, unfortunately.

Jep, that is right - mode 800 works only for the console it was entered in - as I said it is a workaround, not a solution…

the next Problem is: the blender console doesn’t let me enter anything. :frowning:

The console is intended as a monitor, not as a command prompt - it is not a fault that you can’t enter anything…
Why do you want to type something in there?

to type in ‘mode 800’? how would I use that command, if I can’t input anything into that Console?

open up the script window
and on bottom left you can add commands there

if you know what API commands are needed !

happy bl

Try this:

mode 800
cd "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender"
blender.exe

The Start command creates a new console to launch blender.

Awesome! Thank You! :smiley:
This works!