How do I determine if a window is hidden?

[Monolith]

I can't seen to find the right search terms to find the answer to this problem if it has been answered already.

Given a CWnd (or HWND), how do I determine if that window is hidden (as in SW_HIDE) or not?

[Monolith]

By the way, this is what I've tried so far, and it does not work because showCmd is SW_SHOWNORMAL when the window is hidden.

WINDOWPLACEMENT WindowPlacement;
WindowPlacement.length = sizeof(WindowPlacement);
MyWindow.GetWindowPlacement(&WindowPlacement);

bool IsWindowHidden = (WindowPlacement.showCmd == SW_HIDE);

[VictorN]

Did you try CWnd::IsWindowVisible?

[Monolith]

CWnd::IsWindowVisible is exactly what I needed. I'm sorry for missing the obvious answer. I was too focused on finding if a window was hidden. Thank you.

[dmjalund]

IsWindowVisible will return false, if is has been SW_SHOWn but its parent is hidden

to find out whether the window itself would be visible if its parent was visible would be

(::GetWindowLong(hWnd, GWL_STYLE) & WS_VISIBLE) == WS_VISIBLE;

[VictorN]

IsWindowVisible will return false, if is has been SW_SHOWn but its parent is hidden
to find out whether the window itself would be visible if its parent was visible would be
(::GetWindowLong(hWnd, GWL_STYLE) & WS_VISIBLE) == WS_VISIBLE;

Didn't you read the OP?

Given a CWnd (or HWND), how do I determine if that window is hidden (as in SW_HIDE) or not?

So, Monolith didn't ask whether the WS_VISIBLE style is currently set or not but whether window is visible or not (hidden)!
Thus as OP already confirmed more than three years ago (!):

CWnd::IsWindowVisible is exactly what I needed!

[ovidiucucu]

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