Hides the main window of applications run with the open process command or shell function on Windows.
# Metadata
Platforms: desktop, server OS: windows Introduced: 1.0 Security:
# Syntax
set the hideConsoleWindows to {true | false}
# Examples
set the hideConsoleWindows to true
# Description
Use the hideConsoleWindows property to run command line applications without the user seeing them.
On Windows systems, when you run a command line program with the launch or open process command, a console appears. If the hideConsoleWindows property is true, the window is not shown. (You can still use the write to process and read from process commands to send data to the program and get data from it.)
The setting of this property affects Windows applications with a GUI as well as command line programs.
>*Important:* If you run a program that requires user interaction, make > sure the hideConsoleWindows property is set to false beforehand. > Otherwise, the program will not be displayed and the user will not be > able to see it.
The setting of this property has no effect on Mac OS or Unix systems.
# Tags
# See
- **property:** shellCommand - **command:** open process, launch, write to process, read from process - **function:** shell - **control structure:** function - **glossary:** property, Windows, console, command, command line