From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: program without window
Date: 7 May 2001 16:37:35 GMT
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Tim Van Holder <tim DOT vanholder AT falconsoft DOT be> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
[...]
>> As for hiding the window--what exactly did you mean by that?

> Exactly what it says: hiding the window (cfr. Form.Visible = false
> in VB).  Using the API,

Using *what* API?  That's the crucial question.  Being not Windows
apps but DOS programs, DJGPP apps can't access almost anything in the
Windows API. What they can access is via undocumented, apparently
rather fragile interfaces wedged into DOS VM by Microsoft for their
own purposes.

> that list), but it would not bother the user by its presence.  Since
> I suspect the program in question is some sort of daemon/service,
> this seems acceptable.

Such a daemon/service had better not be a DJGPP program, in the first
place.  No other windows program would be able to contact that service
in a reliable manner.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.