Hide an MFC dialog window

Question

I have written an MFC dialog based application which is launched by some another application. For now, I have not added any code. It is just the default files that I got. Th

Answer 1

You must hide the dialog from the inside.

1. Overload OnInitDialog
2. Call CDialogEx::OnInitDialog()
3. Hide your window and return

Here is the code

BOOL CMyAppDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
    BOOL result = CDialogEx::OnInitDialog();

    this->ShowWindow(SW_HIDE);

    return result;  // return TRUE  unless you set the focus to a control
}

There is another method with a sentinel value, YMMV.