Hiding an MFC dialog box

Question

Ok so I am using this code to hide the taskbar icon of a dialog based MFC application(VC++). The taskbar icon and the dialog box hide whenever I click on the cross or the close

Answer 1

I think Paul DiLascia recommended the following. This is for modal dialogs only.

The following code can be put in OnInitDialog to move the dialog off-screen. You will need to implement a method for moving it back on-screen when appropriate.

CRect DialogRect;
GetWindowRect(&DialogRect);
int DialogWidth = DialogRect.Width();
int DialogHeight = DialogRect.Height();
MoveWindow(0-DialogWidth, 0-DialogHeight, DialogWidth, DialogHeight);

The answer from l33t looks good and is probably better but this is an alternative.