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Custom window border

Started by Decept Jan 17, 2005 at 3:55 AM 0 replies 650+ views

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Jan 17, 2005 at 3:55 AM

I'm coding a Windows program and I want to make a custom look for it. I want to change the window's apperence, the border, the caption, min/max/close buttons, etc. I've searched and searched after information about this, but I found nothing helpful. My only lead so far is the WM_NCPAINT message, but I don't know how to really use it, it only gives me a region. Does anyone know how to do this in Win32, without MFC?

Endurion

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Jan 17, 2005 at 4:16 AM

You're asking for a lot of trouble actually.
Beside WM_NCPAINT you also need to watch for WM_NCACTIVATE and WM_SETTEXT, as both of them draw also without using WM_NCPAINT.

Have a look at here". This shows how to add custom buttons to the titlebar. Shouldn't be too hard to add custom painting too.

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