Hiding windows aplication on taskbar

[Wings]

Hi

I have a windows application that uses the createprocess()
function to create another window application. Does any one know how to keep the second process from appearing on the task bar? I am running windows 2000.

Appreciate the help

 

[2ffat]

There are a couple of options. If you are writing the called program, look at

http://www.bcbdev.com/faqs/faq4.htm

or

http://www.bcbdev.com/faqs/faq6.htm.

If you want to hide the called program from CreateProcess try the following from faq101-1954:

STARTUPINFO StartInfo; // name structure
PROCESS_INFORMATION ProcInfo; // name structure
memset(&ProcInfo, 0, sizeof(ProcInfo)); // Set up memory block
memset(&StartInfo, 0 , sizeof(StartInfo)); // Set up memory block
StartInfo.cb = sizeof(StartInfo); // Set structure size
StartInfo.dwFlags = STARTF_USESHOWNWINDOW; // Necessary for wShowWindow to work
StartInfo.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE; // Hide window
int res = CreateProcess(NULL, "MyApp.exe", NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, &StartInfo, &ProcInfo); // starts MyApp

The key is SW_HIDE James P. Cottingham

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[Wings]

I just set it up as a tool window in WinMain()

Thanks for the help