Thread: how to hide the console program?

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    how to hide the console program?

    Hi everyone,
    I am working on a project that uses Flash to call other executable programs written in C++. Everything is fine except when Flash invokes the executable, the console window shows up on top of the Flash program. Is there anything I could do to minimize or hide the concole window behind the main UI??

    Thanks!

    lin

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    if you don't need to get user input, use winmain instead

    Code:
    int WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
                        PSTR szCmdLine, int iCmdShow)
    {
    
      //program
    }
    like create a windows program instead of a console program, and rip out the window creatiion code so you're just left with the main function.
    Last edited by the Wookie; 04-28-2003 at 06:27 PM.

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    just to be sure

    Hi there,
    Thanks for the posting! Let me just make sure if I understand your suggestion here.

    For example I have a program written in C++ called report. Do you mean I put all the code in report.cpp at //program and recompile the program in Visual C++? If so, when specifying the project type in Visual C++, should it be Win32 application?

    Thanks@

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