"Un-hiding" a process.

[IWishIKnew]

I'm making a program for testing purposes, that will start up hidden, but will show when an input is made. So far, I can not find anything on this. I want my program to re-instate it's regular console mode and I cant figure out how to do that. Basically, I want to undo this:

HWND stealth;
    AllocConsole();
    stealth = FindWindowA("ConsoleWindowClass", NULL);
    ShowWindow(stealth, 0);

Thank you for your time

[naraku9333]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms633548%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
Perhaps ShowWindow(stealth,5);?

[andywestken]

The fragment you posted looks dangerous. By looking for the console window by class, you might end up with the handle for another console's window. See "How To Obtain a Console Window Handle (HWND)"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/124103

Andy

PS For people passing by, 0 and 5 should -- of course -- be replaced by the constants SW_HIDE and SW_SHOW ("Avoid magic number": point #17, C++ Coding Standards, Sutter and Alexandrescu).