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Article #10682Re: Hiding a console app
From: Arnie Mauer
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:18
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:18
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"John Franklin" <john@lesberries.co.uk> wrote in message news:4062a188@newsgroups.borland.com... > I need to launch programatically an application that runs as a console > application (it's a virus scan program that does some scanning and then > closes) but I don't want it to appear on the screen. > > I have tried setting the STARTUPINFO.wShowWindow in CreateProcess to SW_HIDE > (or SW_MINIMIZE) but this has no effect. The console window is still > displayed. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks. > > John Franklin Try the DETACHED_PROCESS flag in dwCreationFlags in CreateProcess(). - Arnie
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