Re: Invisible Window
I don't think "Special Agent Orange" has anything graceful in mind.
AliR.
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com> wrote in message
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I'm not sure I'd call it malware, but if I wanted to do an "invisible"
program I'd probably make it a service. That way the service manager
could be used to start and stop it gracefully.
Tom
"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
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You're a bit confused here. OnPaint only draws the contents of the
client area, so if you
have anything in the client area, you would need to draw it there (where
would you expect
to draw it?) But this does not deal with the nonclient area, which is
going to paint
itself anyway. If the window is invisible, what difference does OnPaint
make anyway?
Requiring Task Manager to terminate a task is somewhere between utterly
tasteless and
outright user-hostile. It fundamentally sucks, and you should not
consider this a viable
solution.
Cute programs like this fall into the category of "malware", and it would
be irresponsible
to encourage their construction.
You can create an app that has a tray icon, and is otherwise not
displayed. The system
menu in the tray icon would let you kill it gracefully.
joe
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