ShowWindowAsync

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Windows NT
Yes
Win95
Yes
Win32s
No
Import Library
user32.lib
Header File
winuser.h
Unicode
No
Platform Notes
None

[Now Supported on Windows NT]

The ShowWindowAsync function sets the show state of a window created by a different thread.

BOOL ShowWindowAsync(

HWND hWnd,	// handle of window
int nCmdShow	// show state of window
);

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.