Hi, As part of my efforts to write a test tool that copes with GUIs nicely, I'm trying to establish how I can start a GUI process on Windows that will not bring up the window. So I try to hide the window as follows:
info = subprocess.STARTUPINFO() info.dwFlags |= subprocess.STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW info.wShowWindow = subprocess.SW_HIDE proc = subprocess.Popen(..., startupinfo=info) This works, in a way, but doesn't work recursively. I.e. if the started process itself starts a window, that second window will not be hidden. This even applies to dialog boxes within the application. So instead of a lot of windows popping up I now get a lot of disembodied dialogs appearing, which is a slight improvement but not much. Also, certain processes (e.g. tkdiff) seem to ignore the directive to be hidden altogether. This is dead easy on UNIX with virtual displays like Xvfb. Can someone shed any light if it's possible on Windows from python? Regards, Geoff Bache -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
