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Re: Win32Lib; Timed events

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at ag?ic?lture.gouv.fr> May 16, 2008
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ZNorQ wrote:
> 
> CChris wrote:
> > 
> > I said "any control will do". 0 is not an actual control id, not even a
> > valid
> > handle for Windows. It is a special value which is treated, somewhat
> > consistently,
> > as if refeerring to the desktop window. But it actually doesn't.
> > 
> > CChris
> 
> Ah, ok. But how would i go about then when I'm creating a program that doesn't
> pop-up a window. I know I can use WinMain(0, Normal), but how do I use the
> timer
> in this case?
> 
> Purpose of the code; Run in the background and run various code in intervals.
> 
> Kenneth/ZNorQ

CreateEx a main window that is not visible and has the WS_EX_NOACTIVATE extended
style (so it won't show in the toolbar). Then WinMain(the_window,Minimized). This
is probably close to what you want.
A cleaner way woul be to support message only windows, but it would work on
Win2K only, and currently requires low level API to create it. I'll think about
it.

CChris