Creating Non Visual Windows App

[REALEYES3]

I want to create a Windows application but don't want to display anything visually. I've thought about creating a window and simply making it invisible but it seems that fewer resources would be required to create a non visual object instead. Can anyone enlighten me on how to do this? Is there a way to create a non visual windows application with C++?

Why would anyone want to create a non visual windows app? This app is actually a utility that will be called from a PowerBuilder application. We want to create a windows app as opposed to a command line app because we don't want to the user to see the DOS box.


Dennis

 

[NiceButDim]

If you create a project to be dialog based (via MFC AppWizard) and then remove references to the main dialog in InitInstance()
i.e.
Cxxx dlg
m_pMainWnd = &dlg;
int nResponse = dlg.DoModal();
etc.
you will have an app that doesn't create a window.

 

[StukA]

Another way is to just use the Win32 API - write a WinMain function that doesn't create a window.