Hello again, here's my latest (read: newbie) question:
  I'm trying to have an application that resides only in the system tray.  Having finally gotten the tray icon working (and a function to process it) I need to know how to make the button disappear from the task bar.  Currently my app shows an icon in the tray and in the taskbar, along with all the other apps.  Microsoft says to use a window style (WS_PALETTE or something like that) but I don't have enough control over the window style then.  I tried making a hidden window, but I do not know how.  Is there
 a way to create a hidden window with visible children?
Here's an example
  HWND hHiddenWindow;
  HWND hNormalWindow;
  all the registering and creating...;
  SetParent(hNormalWindow, hHiddenWindow);
  SendMessage(hHiddenWindow, SW_HIDE, 0, 0);
But when I tell hHiddenWindow to hide then hNormalWindow hides too.  Can anyone help me?  (I thought maybe there's a special hidden window style or something but I can't find anything like that).
  Thanks a lot
   - J Woltman

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To hide a window, you'd normally use ShowWindow( SW_HIDE ), but you
should be able to skip that step by creating the window hidden (by not
specifying the WS_VISIBLE style).

Dave
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Thanks for helping me, I got it to work without calling the SetParent or SetOwner.
  - J Woltman