Qt-Widgets-Application print something to console/terminal

[Danny778]

Hello Community,
i am new here and need Qt for my studies.
I have a short and simple question:

Created a Qt-Console application, there i can print something to the terminal with std::cout after enableing it in the settings.
It works without any problem.

For a Qt-Widget-Application it does not work.

Can someone help me as a Newbie?
Thanks in advance!

[JonB]

@Danny778
Qt widget applications, being a UI, do not have a console/terminal. You don't see stuff sent to std::cout. Why would you want to in a non-console application? For debugging you can still use qDebug() and see output from Qt Creator, otherwise I can't think of a use.

[Danny778]

@JonB
Trying out Qt for an exercise for my university. Didn't know that, today is my first day trying out Qt and was a little bit confused.
Thank you very much for your help!

[Bonnie]

I guess you are under windows? That's the default behavior for windows gui application.
You'll need to add

win32:CONFIG += console

to the pro file if you are using qmake.

But then there will be another problem, if you start the application from console/terminal, it is ok, but when you double click the exe, there will also be a console window which probably you dont want.

So why you need std::cout in a gui application in the first place?