How to I start a dialog based program minimized so that it just shows up in
the system tray.  I've got all of the tray stuff working just fine.  If I
add my "MinimiseToTray" function in my InitDialog routine, you see dialog
being minimized when it is run which is not what I want.  I have also tried
to add the WS_MINIMIZE to my resource file, but my dialog still apprears.
What is the best way to do this?

Thanks,
Don Sanders

    The problem here is that a dialog isn't quite a window, and therefore
can't be altered through PreCreateWindow. No, that would be too easy. So
what you can do instead is handle this sort of style change in OnInitDialog.
    The key here is to do it BEFORE calling the parent class' method.
Example:

BOOL CMinimizeDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
    WINDOWPLACEMENT wp;
    // Get the current placement to preserve size, etc.
    GetWindowPlacement(&wp);
    // Set how you'd like it to be shown.
    wp.showCmd = SW_MINIMIZE;
    SetWindowPlacement(&wp);

    // Carry on as usual.
    CDialog::OnInitDialog();

    SetIcon(m_hIcon, TRUE);   // Set big icon
    SetIcon(m_hIcon, FALSE);  // Set small icon

    // TODO: Add extra initialization here

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

Hope that helps.

Hi Don...
                An alternative to using WINDOWPLACEMENT  &
GetWindowPlacement() is

                ShowWindow ( SW_MINIMIZE );

Cheers
Check Abdoul
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