ready-to-show event is never fired after calling browserWindow.hide() on Windows

[danny-does-stuff]

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Issue Details

• Electron Version:
  • 9.1.2
• Operating System:
  • Windows 10
• Last Known Working Electron version:
  • 4.2.8 (Not sure if it was happening from 5 - 8)

Expected Behavior

Calling browserWindow.hide() after creating a new BrowserWindow() on windows should not preclude the ready-to-show event from being fired.

Actual Behavior

In Windows, after creating a BrowserWindow and calling browserWindow.hide(), the ready-to-show event is never fired.

To Reproduce

** ON WINDOWS **

Either use this Electron Fiddle: https://gist.github.com/dannyharding10/7b38139009012817608c0ea8a2ba29bc

Or simply clone the Electron Quick Start repo and make the following changes in main.js

Additional Information

This does not happen on Mac. I did not test on Linux. As far as I understand, if the window is showing then the ready-to-show event will never fire, as described in the docs where it says "the ready-to-show event will be emitted when the renderer process has rendered the page for the first time if the window has not been shown yet.". However calling window.hide() does not show the window, so ready-to-show should still fire.

I could imagine how this might be intended behavior if it were consistent between operating systems, but the fact that it is specific to Windows makes me think it is indeed a bug in electron.

[codebytere]

Potentially fixed by #25448

[codebytere]

Confirmed closed in #25448