1. RE: Keeping main window hidden
> What I'm doing at the moment is making the window with zero height
> and width and giving it the WS_POPUP style. However, it still shows
> up on the alt-tab list. A way to hide it from the alt-tab list is to
> make it invisible:
>
> showWindow(wndEventProcessor,SW_HIDE)
>
> but this must be done after the window has been opened and it
> doesn't seem to work in the onOpen event, I suppose it could be done
> on a timer but this seems a very messy way of doing things.
another way to hide it is to put that statement in an onPaint callback,
then to set the callback to -1
