stopping the console window from showing

[Matthew Luckie]

Hi there

I use XWin.exe to do remote X with the following shortcut:

C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\XWin.exe -screen 0 1024x740 -from
192.168.0.10 -query
192.168.0.1 -once -emulate3buttons -nowinkill -nounixkill

I have the path environment set so I can do this from a shortcut on my
desktop.  I absolutely love what I can do with this software, although it
would be nice to get rid of the console window that is shown along with the
Cygwin/XFree86 window.

I am aware that NT Emacs overcame this problem with a small utility exe that
hides the console window that is created.  I adapted the code to XWin.exe
(called it runxwin.exe) although the Cygwin/XFree86 window never shows.
This could be my fault.  I haven't looked through the code for XWin.exe but
I speculate that this could be the result of ShowWindow being called with
WinMain's nCmdShow which would be SW_HIDE.

I have included the source to the runxwin.exe which was adapted from
runemacs.exe (which is GPLd).
http://www.math.luc.edu/~rig/home/emacs/emacs-20.4/nt/runemacs.c

Is there a way for me to stop the console window showing?
If you respond, could you please CC me as I am not subscribed to this list

Matthew

#include <windows.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <malloc.h>

int WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hSelf, HINSTANCE hPrev, LPSTR cmdline, int
nShow)
{
  STARTUPINFO start;
  SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES sec_attrs;
  PROCESS_INFORMATION child;
  int wait_for_child = FALSE;
  DWORD ret_code = 0;
  char *new_cmdline;
  char *p;
  char modname[MAX_PATH];

  if (!GetModuleFileName (NULL, modname, MAX_PATH))
    goto error;
  if ((p = strrchr (modname, '\\')) == NULL)
    goto error;
  *p = 0;

  new_cmdline = alloca (MAX_PATH + strlen (cmdline) + 1);
  strcpy (new_cmdline, modname);
  strcat (new_cmdline, "\\XWin.exe ");
  strcat (new_cmdline, cmdline);

  memset (&start, 0, sizeof (start));
  start.cb = sizeof (start);
  start.dwFlags = STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW;
  start.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE;

  sec_attrs.nLength = sizeof (sec_attrs);
  sec_attrs.lpSecurityDescriptor = NULL;
  sec_attrs.bInheritHandle = FALSE;

  if (CreateProcess (NULL, new_cmdline, &sec_attrs, NULL, TRUE, 0,
                     NULL, NULL, &start, &child))
    {
      if (wait_for_child)
        {
          WaitForSingleObject (child.hProcess, INFINITE);
          GetExitCodeProcess (child.hProcess, &ret_code);
        }
      CloseHandle (child.hThread);
      CloseHandle (child.hProcess);
    }
  else
    goto error;
  return (int) ret_code;

error:
  MessageBox (NULL, "Could not start XWin.", "Error", MB_ICONSTOP);
  return 1;
}