resizing borderless dialogs

[Chris Holbrook]

So far I have used the WS_THICKFRAME style to give a sizing border to the dialogs which I have been using. This works well but when the main dialog contains dozens of child dialogs it looks too fussy. However, when I loose the style, I loose the functionality as well.

I can detect a left click near a border of a child dialog by trapping WM_MOUSEACTIVATE, then the WM_LBUTTONDOWN mouse message from the lparam, but the HIT-TEST value is always HT_CLIENT, reasonably enough.
At this point by converting the mouse pointer coordinates I can detect whether the "hit" is within say 5 units of whichever edge of the child dialog, and use that for sizing by using SetWindowPos in the WM_PAINT handler.

My difficulty is with where to obtain the coordinates used to resize the window while the border is being "moved" by the mouse. WM_MOUSEMOVE doesn't appear to fire while the child dialog is being resized.

[Edwin Knoppert]

Wm_setcursor..

[Chris Boss]

You can process the WM_NCHITTEST message to "fake" Windows into thinking there is a resizable border. The return value you return for this message determines how Windows displays the cursor and how mouse clicks are handled.

[Edwin Knoppert]

*That's* a good one.

[Chris Holbrook]

You can process the WM_NCHITTEST message

Yes, I just worked that one out, and found some code of Jules Marchildon's (from the late Pleistocene I believe), which uses WM_NCHITTEST and also features grippers, a nice example which I have adapted to work with dialogs and DDT. I put a demo back on the Source Code Forum here: http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pb...077#post293077.