How to hide my SmartDevice application on startup?

Question

I made a SmartDevice application that runs on startup and I want it to be hidden at first launch.

I\'ve tried this.Hide(), this.Visible =

Answer 1

declare two global vars :

int32 VGU_Left;
int32 VGU_Top;

in the on create of the form object :

VGU_Left=this.left;
VGU_Top=this.top;
this.left=this.width*-1;
this.top=this.height*-1;

and when you want to show the form :

if ((this.left<0)and(this.top<0)) then 
  this.left=VGU_Left;
  this.top=VGU_Top;
endif