WS_DLGFRAME - without titlebar?

[Paul Squires]

Ah, the baby steps I'm starting to take.....

I am using SetWindowLong (and the subsequent SetWindowPos)
to update an existing window. I do not want a window where
the cursor changes to a resize icon so I decided to use the
WS_DLGFRAME constant. That works okay but now the form displays
with a title bar that I don't want (I have my own "fake" title
bar that I move into place at the upper left corner of the
window.

Can anyone tell me how to get rid of the titlebar?

Thanks,



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Paul Squires
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[Lance Edmonds]

Is this a dialog, DDT or SDK style window?

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Lance
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[Paul Squires]

Hi Lance,

This is being done in VB using the API to change the window
characteristics of a UserControl. This control (which has a
hwnd property) is a "fake" form that I have made which will be
the basic drawing form in Visual Design IDE (rather than using
a real live form). The design form gets resized using grab
handles. This makes things much easier for me because
I can raise my own events and property changes - anyway, enough
VB, I'm sure you don't want to hear about that

I use GetWindowLong to get the current style (GWL_STYLE), I
then update it with SetWindowLong (using WS_BORDER OR WS_DLGFRAME).
I commit the cached window changes using SetWindowPos.

Everything works, its just that the new window has a titlebar
that I don't need. Its just a titlebar (or caption bar, I guess),
there is no ControlBox, caption, Min/Max/Close buttons.

Maybe there is a setting I could change the GWL_EXSTYLE to that
will make the title bar go away???

Essentially, I want a window that doesn't cause the mouse cursor
to change shape when it hovers over the window edges and does
not have a title bar.

I hope I explained this right.

Thanks,


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Paul Squires
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[Lance Edmonds]

%WS_CHILD ?

Note that some window properties cannot be retrospectively changed, and WS_CHILD might be one of these styles (I'm not near my DEV PC to check MSDN right now, sorry!).


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Lance
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[Lance Edmonds]

One more thing... I'm still not completely clear on the type of control/window this is, but if this is a VB control, then it is probably a custom control rather than a dialog, so you may be using the wrong type of styles altogether for the control.

What does GetClassName() return for the control/window?

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Lance
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[Paul Squires]

Lance,

Problem solved. I used the DrawEdge API instead and got the
results I was looking for.

Thanks,



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Paul Squires
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