Want to hide IE window using CreateProcess()

[rajprabhu2k]

I want to execute a HTML page using CreateProcess API but i dont want to show the Internet Explorer, this is the code but it shows the windows. I have given the code. Can anyone one help me ?

TCHAR cmd[ MAX_PATH ] = TEXT("");
SearchPath( NULL, TEXT("explorer.exe"), NULL, MAX_PATH - 1, cmd, NULL );

const char* pszFileName = "C:\\test.html";
char name[400];
sprintf(name,pszFileName);
_stprintf( cmd + _tcslen( cmd ), TEXT(" \"%s\",/e,/idlist"), name);


PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;
ZeroMemory (&pi, sizeof (pi));


STARTUPINFO si;
ZeroMemory( &si, sizeof(si) );
si.cb = sizeof(si);

si.dwFlags = STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW;
si.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE;

CreateProcess (NULL, cmd, 0, 0, 0, DETACHED_PROCESS, 0, 0, &si, &pi);

if( pi.hThread != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE )
CloseHandle( pi.hThread );
if( pi.hProcess != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE )
CloseHandle( pi.hProcess );

[Mukesh_VC]

SearchPath( NULL, TEXT("explorer.exe"), NULL, MAX_PATH - 1, cmd, NULL );

you have used "explorer.exe"
but I think you should use "iexplore.exe"
please recheck your code

[rajprabhu2k]

hi this code is working, but it shows the Internet explorer window , I want to hide the internet explorer window, everything should be done in background.

[Mukesh_VC]

oh sorry!!!
by mistake i read ShellExecute instead of SearchPath.

I wanted to say like this....

ShellExecute(NULL,L"Open",L"C:\\test.html",NULL,NULL,SW_HIDE);

you can modify cmd and put instead of L"C:\\test.html"

[rajprabhu2k]

It works but , this also shows the browser i want to hide the browser window

[HairyMonkeyMan]

You could use the ShowWindow API

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...48(VS.85).aspx

[rajprabhu2k]

CreateProcess (NULL, cmd, 0, 0, 0, CREATE_NO_WINDOW, 0, 0, &si, &pi);
ShowWindow((HWND)pi.dwProcessId,SW_HIDE);

thanks but its not working

[Arjay]

ShowWindow((HWND)pi.dwProcessId,SW_HIDE);

dwProcessID isn't the hWnd to the main window so this won't work. You need to grab the main window for IExplore.exe. You can use FindWindow() or EnumWindows( ). I would use EnumWindows and restrict the enum to toplevel windows matching the dwProcessID of the explorer instance you launched.

Another way to approach this is to use the Web Browser control within your application.

[rajprabhu2k]

How to add WebBrowser control into the application?

[fred100]

How to add WebBrowser control into the application?

Just search on Google Groups : hundreds of samples in 0.15 seconds..