Those darned users and their minimized windows.
In C#, if I have a window's HWND, is there a way to tell if it is visible on the desktop?
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We are all users, too, and who to you program for anyway if not for the users? By the time of this writing I have 5 minimized windows – chiccodoro Jan 17 '14 at 14:37
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The echos of sarcasm from five years past. – directedition Jan 17 '14 at 14:56
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The GetWindowPlacement function returns a WINDOWPLACEMENT structure which has a field showCmd:
Specifies the current show state of the window.
The details of this read as though you would be setting the window state, but I suspect that this is because they've been copied from somewhere else and not updated.
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Phew thanks, spent at least 10 minutes of boring googling to find out how the heck one is supposed to check window visibility via WinAPI... The name is a little obscure and of course the documentation for how to hide a window doesn't link to it... – Roman Starkov Aug 01 '10 at 00:30
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There's the Visible property, but that checks the visible flag, it doesn't tell you whether the window is being covered by another window, or off the screen, etc.. That's a lot more tricky. Raymond Chen has some tips, though:
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bool isHwndVisible = Control.FromHandle(handle).Visible
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1That only works for (Managed) Controls in the current Application. I think the OP is referring to another application. – H H Nov 15 '09 at 21:43