1. RE: Floating Child Windows
I haven't programmed for windows for years now, and I don't have a manual in
front of me.
But years ago I too was perplexed over this.. I remember I managed to create
one, from memory I believed I did it by using a WNDCLASSEX constant either in the
class itself or the window creation function. if you look it up on microsoft.com
database it would say
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2. RE: Floating Child Windows
They do not "Cheat". IT's included in the win32 api - if they *extend* that
window class then by definition nearly every commercial application si *Cheating.
You can simplyu create it with the Winw32 API. I guarantee it. Why on earth you
think it involves graphical windows drawing functions I have no idea. YOU are
wrong.
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(censored) / Frank
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3. RE: Floating Child Windows
> They do not "Cheat". IT's included in the win32 api - if they *extend* that
> window
> class then by definition nearly every commercial application si *Cheating. You
> can
> simplyu create it with the Winw32 API. I guarantee it. Why on earth you think
> it involves
> graphical windows drawing functions I have no idea. YOU are wrong.
Of course they do it from the Windows API. You *have* to. No way around it.
I didnt say otherwise. By "cheating" I mean that that title bar is non-standard
in the fact that Windows itself did not draw it. It was drawn with the exact
same function that Windows would call, but thats a different topic.
And BTW for your edification. It *does* involve graphical drawing functions.
If you are under the impression that Windows does not make use of the available
GDI functions your are mistaken. When a Window needs to draw a title bar, the
Window itself calls the API I previously mentioned to do this.
Don Phillips - aka Graebel
National Instruments
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