Re: How can I hide the main window / dialog
Perhaps you could show some code... You mention that it is a window/dialog
which sounds like a dialog application, but later reference doc/view mode.
If it is a dialog application it is kind of hard to get it not to display
since it runs as a modal dialog. I've hear of people doing some tricks like
making the dialog really small (assuming they just want to show as an icon
or something) so that it doesn't show on the screen (or moving it off the
screen somewhere). I think you could do this in OnInitDialog(), but I've
never tried it.
If it is a doc/view application you can do as David suggests and either just
not show the mainframe. I believe you can set the m_nCmdShow variable to
SW_HIDE.
Tom
"Victor Lai" <VictorLai@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi,
I use MFC to paint a picture(.bmp file) on screen. But I want the
application main window not to show on screen. How can I do that?
I tried to use dialog and doc/view mode, the best I can do is to call a
SendMessage(WM_CLOSE,0,0) on OnInitDialog(). But there is still a flash
screen of showing the main dialog then close. How can I prevent it from
showing?
Thanks.
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