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Date:	Mon, 07 May 2001 16:39:49 +0200
From:	Tim Van Holder <tim DOT vanholder AT falconsoft DOT be>
Organization:	Falcon Software NV
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: program without window
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 7 May 2001, Tim Van Holder wrote:
> 
> > > It's true that you can put "Minimized" in the "Run" property, but that
> > > still doesn't prevent the window from being maximized by the user,
> > > which is what I believe Michelle was looking for.
> >
> > Maybe you could use the VXD call mechanism to call a Windows API
> > function to either disable maximization or hide the window (which I
> > expect would be equally acceptable).
> 
> It's possible that this could be done, but I've never seen a description
> how.  And the back-door of calling VxDs is a moving target anyway, and is
> also notoriously undocumented.  So...
> 
> As for hiding the window--what exactly did you mean by that?
Exactly what it says: hiding the window (cfr. Form.Visible = false in
VB).
Using the API, it should be possible to get the window handle of the DOS
box and hide it, so it no longer shows up in task bar or ALT-TAB. That
way,
the only way to kill it would be Ctrl-Alt-Delete (it _should_ still be
in
that list), but it would not bother the user by its presence.  Since I
suspect the program in question is some sort of daemon/service, this
seems
acceptable.

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Tim Van Holder - Falcon Software N.V.
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