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Tony Hoyle <tony.hoyle at march-hare.com> writes: > Oliver Giesen wrote: > >> Could it maybe at least detect that it is invisible and then change the >> default to not sending the report? How about displaying a Yes/No query >> on STDOUT instead in that case? I'm not sure that most people would be >> as tolerant when discovering that the cvs.exe is "phoning home" for no >> apparent reason (as that will be what it will look like to them). > > I'm not aware of any way a console application can detect that it's > invisible (doesn't really have any meaning to such apps.. they have stdin > and stdout basically)... OTOH it shouldn't be possible to effect popups > created by that application either... not sure what's going on there. A console app has a console. You can get a handle to it, and check whether it's visible. Anthony -- Anthony Williams Software Developer