Re: CreateProcess SW_HIDE not working

From:

"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:24:46 -0800

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"Bob" <jeep@rahul.net> wrote in message
news:c40c9da3-125c-415d-b71b-a66a9a372ca9@u18g2000pro.googlegroups.com...

Ive been reading many many other articles on this issue and playing
with variations of
my code to get it working and cannot seem to get it to work. I have a
thread that is launched
withing a MFC GUI application which Im trying to silently do work in.
Im using wget.exe which
works fine. In fact all the code works great except the stupid window
keeps popping up everytime
it launches my wget. I even tried to reduce the size of the window to
1 x 1 pixels and that
doesnt even work!

Can someone tell me why? Ive looked at the microsoft pages on article
Q150956 and anything
else I could see with no luck.

I appreciate it!

Relevant code here:
...
si.dwFlags = STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW | STARTF_USESIZE;
si.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE;

The SW_ parameter above is passed to WinMain() ast the last parameter,
nCmdShow. Perhaps your wget.exe is ignoring this parameter?

In MFC apps, I think MFC will process it for you, but only if you create an
SDI/MDI app (the handling is done when creating the doc template, which is
not done when your app is a dialog-based app). For example, in your
CWinApp::InitInstance(), you do a DoModal() of your dialog which completely
ignores the parameter.

So fault may be in wget.exe.

-- David