I am writing an app that utilises MFC Doc/View. However, the default start
up mode for the app is as a icon in the sys tray. Therefor the application
should start as hidden.

How can I initialise the doc/view without creating a visible window?

The obvious method :

m_pMainWnd->ShowWindow(SW_HIDE);

called during CMyApp::InitInstance()

causes the window to flash on then off as the window has already been shown
by the call to

ProcessShellCommand(cmdInfo);

I believe that I've read (more than once) on this group that if you set
CWinApp::m_nCmdShow to SW_HIDE before your ProcessShellCommand call that you
will achieve the results you desire.

TFM3

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Jeroen,

I think this will prevent the flash:

        // Dispatch commands specified on the command line
        m_nCmdShow = SW_HIDE;

        if (!ProcessShellCommand(cmdInfo))
                return FALSE;

Dave
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