Help with hiding

[ozUkoG1T]

Hey C++ forums,
I am trying to make an chat application in winsock2.h but the problem is that i want to make sure only when someone pings them ( in britain it means messages you) the window should pop up but else it should hide from user into the process list can some one explain how should i do that

[blackcoder41]

AnimateWindow
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms632669(v=vs.85).aspx

ShowWindow
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms633548(v=vs.85).aspx