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How to Customize A Title Bar in VB6?


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There are 6 style title bars that can be chosen in VB6, but all of them are full of unpleasant traditional manner, such as ugly MaxButton and MinButton. Now the question is how to customize MaxButton or other into what I'm fond of? For instance, want that MaxButton becomes a football-shaped image... and even change shape of the title bar, put a picture into the title bar... How to deal with?

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Originally posted by JZolloXP

You would have to change the form property to 0 (None) and design your own title bar with your own graphics,

Yes, buddy. It's a way out.

Seems just one thing has to deal with. This form with "None" borderstyle can't be resized with mouse, though adding code such as "WindowState" to resize the form. How to settle this prob?

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You could subclass the form and do all your own non-client painting. With subclassing, you intercept messages sent to your program and have a custom message loop to deal with the ones you want. It can be a pain to do, but it's powerful.

some online resources...

http://www.softcircuits.com/sw_vbsrc.htm

http://www.arcatapet.com/vb.html

http://planetsourcecode.com/vb/Tutorial/de...lt.asp?lngWid=1

http://www.vbsquare.com/api/subcls/

http://vbaccelerator.com/

http://www.allapi.net/

and a book...

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/subhookvb/

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Originally posted by weenur

You could subclass the form and do all your own non-client painting. With subclassing, you intercept messages sent to your program and have a custom message loop to deal with the ones you want. It can be a pain to do, but it's powerful.

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Sounds like having to cleanse the Augean stables. But thanks for replying, buddy.

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Originally posted by Dave888

Seems just one thing has to deal with. This form with "None" borderstyle can't be resized with mouse, though adding code such as "WindowState" to resize the form. How to settle this prob?

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Originally posted by weenur

You could subclass the form and do all your own non-client painting. With subclassing, you intercept messages sent to your program and have a custom message loop to deal with the ones you want. It can be a pain to do, but it's powerful.

For fearing of the complication of method that you introduced above, i try to seek for another way to work out. Now, buddy, i've found a way easy as pie to change size of a form without border (borderstyle = 0) in VB6.

The approach just uses HScroll or VScrollBar, make its value equal to the form width or height; typing codes in H/VScroll_Change(); and all things will be okay!

The little prob is that the form seems not very handsome and users would feel somewhat inconvenient.

Buddy, i know you are a veteran in programming, your comment is quite often significant for me.

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Originally posted by freeza

i usually set VB to show no titlebar then create my own :)

Good idea!

Would you like to introduce a little of how you let users to resize your form without titlebar, please?

(Note: minimizing, maximizing and being vbnormal

form are very simple, what I mean is to resize form as user's wish)

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