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Chapter 4 - Window Manager / Window Manager Reference

Window Manager Routines / Displaying Windows

HideWindow

Use the HideWindow procedure to make a window invisible.

PROCEDURE HideWindow (theWindow: WindowPtr);

theWindow

A pointer to the window's window record.

DESCRIPTION

The HideWindow procedure make a visible window invisible. If you hide the frontmost window, HideWindow removes the highlighting, brings the window behind it to
the front, highlights the new frontmost window, and generates the appropriate
activate events.

To reverse the actions of HideWindow, you must call both ShowWindow, to make the window visible, and SelectWindow, to select it.

SEE ALSO

See Listing 4-16 on page 4-60 for an example that calls HideWindow to temporarily
hide a dialog box window when the user closes it. See Listing 4-18 on page 4-64 for the companion example that redisplays the window later.