There is another post entitled "Invisible dialog box" on this topic this very
day. See if this helps.

HTH,

David Wilkinson

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I've written an MFC based "Sticky notes" kind of program (dialog based) and
I don't want the window to show up when the program is first run. It puts an
icon in the system tray and it "unhides" when this is clicked. I've tried to
do a ShowWindow(SW_HIDE) in InitDialog() but it didn't work, so I suppose
the framework does another ShowWindow somewhere after that. Which would
handler should I override to insert my SW_HIDE?
Also, I'm using OnCancel to catch the "close window" event, so that I can
simply hide the window (minimize to tray) instead of quitting. How can I
easily let the program be terminated, now? (Whatever I do, the OnCancel
handler seems to be called, which doesn't exit the program (including trying
to terminate the program using ctrl-alt-del and, I suppose, when shutting
down the system) )

TIA
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Arild Kvalbein

i read about using a redefined windproc and off-screen buffer DC to
avoid flickering. Being new to MFC, can't i use some CImageList
operations to do this for me? I can use CImageList::Draw(...) in my
ON_LBUTTONDWN, ON_MOUSEMOVE messages etc. , but i don't want the "trace"
of the image afterwards, but i'm not sure how to use the
CImageList::BeginDrag(), EnterDrag() etc. to get flicker-free dragging.

In the first case, where would i put the redefined windproc in my
workspace?