Hello Ken!

06 Nov 94 08:59, Marc Heyvaert wrote to Ken Scott:

 MH> Hello Ken!


 KS>>> Well, I got as far as developing a music composition program
 KS>>> that I was on the verge of putting on the shareware market as a
 KS>>> beta test only to find out that the Realizer window could not be
 KS>>> removed.  It really irritated me that CA, whom i believe to be
 KS>>> competant and professional application developer, would have
 KS>>> allowed such a thing in a 2.0 release.  Needless to say I have
 KS>>> abandoned it completely. But thanks for the reply!

 MH> As far as I know it is not possible to make the main application
 MH> window disappear completely. The SetSys command does not accept _Hide
 MH> as a size constant, but I can live with the disrete Icon at the bottom
 MH> of the screen. I wonder if it would be possible to make an
"invisible"
 MH> icon, or a very small one ...Anyway, I know of a lot of professional
 MH> packages that "signal" the run-time environment by adding
a "system"
 MH> icon on the desktop. No harm in that. A pity that you decided agains
 MH> release of your program.

I have even found a better solution. Give any window that you want to be
visible the _PopUp style and then you just compile your exe with
'application invisible' check box in the project builder/EXE options menu.
No icon, no trace of the realizer environment, just your own form(s).
Simple.

Marc
(fidonet: 2:292/500.24  - internet: marc.h{at}cormy.nfe.be)

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