ShowWindowAsync
[Now
Supported on Windows NT]
The ShowWindowAsync
function sets the show state of a window created by a different thread.
BOOL ShowWindowAsync(
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HWND hWnd, |
// handle
of window |
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int nCmdShow |
// show
state of window |
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); |
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Parameters
hWnd
Identifies
the window.
nCmdShow
Specifies how
the window is to be shown. For a list of possible values, see the description
of the ShowWindow
function.
Return Values
If the window
was previously visible, the return value is nonzero.
If the window
was previously hidden, the return value is zero.
Remarks
This function
posts a show-window event to the message queue of the given window. An
application can use this function to avoid becoming hung while waiting for a
hung application to finish processing a show-window event.
See Also