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From: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Hiding an icon
Message-ID: <6754@hsv3.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 91 17:14:09 GMT
References: <10382@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <14607@june.cs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman)
Organization: Video Seven / Headland Technology
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In article <14607@june.cs.washington.edu> slh@wolf.cs.washington.edu (Scott Heyano) writes:
>In article <10382@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> jls@hsv3.UUCP writes:
>|I'm trying to hide a minimized window so that it doesn't appear on the
>|screen at all.  My thought was to just do a ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_HIDE).
>|Unfortunately, this only hides the icon itself, and not the little caption
>|underneath it.  Is there some elegant (meaning easy) way to do this?
>	I don't know what the right way is, but you could
>	hide the window and restore it, possibly in the same call,
>	depending if windows does the smart thing.

Actually, I can't do that.  I'm trying to hide the window from inside
the SIZEICONIC case of the WM_SIZE message.  If I restore the window,
I'll get a new WM_SIZE message with a SIZENORMAL.  This will set off a
whole new set of processes as I position child windows, etc.  

If I could get a handle to that little caption window then I could just
hide it explicitly.  But even EnumTaskWindows() won't seem to get me the
right handle!  Aargh!

-- 
Jim Seidman (Drax), the accidental engineer.
"There's a certain freedom to being completely screwed." - The Freshman
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