Bringing a window up initially hidden - Using SDK

[Sheri Rector]

Hi -
I need a way to bring a window up initially hidden. I have looked at the
WS_* and the WS_EX_* flags and the ability is not there. I did find an
article in the VC++ 5.0 on-line help about doing just this with MFC and MDI
Child windows that I might be able to adapt, but I was just wondering if
anyone out there had some experience with this. Thanks in advance.

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[Mike Smith]

Check out the available parameters for ShowWindow().

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[Dave Postill]

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Sheri Rector wrote in message <01bd41f3$96350f40$5b4470cf@srector>...

|Hi -
| I need a way to bring a window up initially hidden.

ShowWindow( hWnd, SW_HIDE );

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[Patrick Philippot]

You just have to use ShowWindow with the correct parameter.

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[sc...@softbase.com]

Sheri Rector (sre...@tydac.com) wrote:
>I need a way to bring a window up initially hidden. I have looked at the
>WS_* and the WS_EX_* flags and the ability is not there.

Unless I'm missing out on something obvious, why can't you
use SW_HIDE instead of SW_NORMAL in the call to ShowWindow()?
Window styles don't handle hiding/showing windows. Maybe that
was a red herring.

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[Jerry Coffin]

In article <01bd41f3$96350f40$5b4470cf@srector>, sre...@tydac.com
says...
> Hi -

> I need a way to bring a window up initially hidden. I have looked at the
> WS_* and the WS_EX_* flags and the ability is not there.

Yes it is -- there's a WS_VISIBLE flag, and if it's not set, the
window is invisible. If you're creating a modal dialog, Windows will
normally force the WS_VISIBLE bit on, even if you don't set it.
However, with normal windows if WS_VISIBLE isn't set, the window is
invisible.

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[Sten Westerback]

In article <6d1btu$dk5$1...@shelby.visix.com>, "Dave Postill" <da...@visix.com> wrote:
>[posted and emailed]
>
>Sheri Rector wrote in message <01bd41f3$96350f40$5b4470cf@srector>...

>|Hi -
>| I need a way to bring a window up initially hidden.
>

>ShowWindow( hWnd, SW_HIDE );

Wouldn't it be better to either
- no call ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_SHOW)
- remove the WS_VISIBLE flag

- Sten