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Subclassing and Hooking with Visual Basic
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Subclassing and Hooking with Visual Basic

by Stephen Teilhet
June 2001
Intermediate to advanced
706 pages
24h 10m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

ShowWindow

Synopsis

Determines how the window is displayed:

Public Declare Function ShowWindow Lib "user32" _
		(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nCmdShow As Long) As Long

Parameters

hwnd

Window handle

nCmdShow

Specifies how the window is displayed:

SW_FORCEMINIMIZE

Displays a minimized window even if the thread that owns the window is hung.

SW_HIDE

Hides the window and activates another window.

SW_MAXIMIZE

Displays a maximized window.

SW_MINIMIZE

Displays a minimized window.

SW_RESTORE

Displays a window in its restored state.

SW_SHOW

Activates a window.

SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED

Activates and maximizes the window.

SW_SHOWMINIMIZED

Activates and minimizes the window.

SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE

Displays a minimized window, but does not activate it.

SW_SHOWNA

Displays a window, but does not activate it.

SW_SHOWNORMAL

Activates and displays a window. If the window is minimized or maximized, it is first restored.

SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE

Same as SW_SHOWNORMAL, but the window is not activated.

Return Value

Returns if the window was previously hidden. Returns nonzero if the window was previously visible.

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