1. creating dialog-like windows using win32lib or CreateWindowEx
- Posted by ed_davis2 at yahoo.com
Apr 14, 2004
I'm trying to create a dialog box, using win32lib (or win32 API
CreateWindowEx), that looks like a normal dialog:
A caption/title, no system menu, a close [x] button.
For instance, the notepad find dialog is like this (it also has a
help button).
I can nearly get this style by using the WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW.
However, using this style, the title is drawn in a smaller font,
and the close [x] button is very small.
Anyone know how to do this?
2. Re: creating dialog-like windows using win32lib or CreateWindowEx
The closest I can get:
1. style = or_all({WS_THICKFRAME, WS_SYSMENU}), extended style =
WS_EX_DLGMODALFRAME
No minimize/maximize but with a system menu (is this really a problem?).
2. style = WS_THICKFRAME, extended style = WS_EX_DLGMODALFRAME
No system menu, but also no close button.
If you want the little [?]-button, extended style = or_all({WS_EX_DLGMODALFRAME,
WS_EX_CONTEXTHELP})
3. Re: creating dialog-like windows using win32lib or CreateWindowEx
- Posted by ed_davis2 at yahoo.com
Apr 14, 2004
Tommy Carlier wrote:
>The closest I can get: 1. style = or_all({WS_THICKFRAME,
>WS_SYSMENU}), extended style = WS_EX_DLGMODALFRAME No
>minimize/maximize but with a system menu (is this really a
>problem?).
Yes it is a problem - I don't want the system menu - I want it to
look like other dialogs found in other applications.
>2. style = WS_THICKFRAME, extended style = WS_EX_DLGMODALFRAME
>No system menu, but also no close button. If you want the little
>[?]-button, extended style = or_all({WS_EX_DLGMODALFRAME,
>WS_EX_CONTEXTHELP})
Thanks for the attempts.
It is interesting. If you create a resource file, using the styles
DS_MODALFRAME | WS_POPUP | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU, and load the
dialog via the normal means, and call DialogBox, you get just
what I would like to have.
Obviously, there must be a way to do it with the Win32 API, since
Windows does it.
I ran spy on notepads find dialog, and its styles were: WS_POPUP,
WS_VISIBLE, WS_CLIPSIBLINGS, WS_BORDER, WS_DLGFRAME, WS_SYSMENU,
0x20c4 (what is that?).
Extended styles: WS_EX_DLGMODALFRAME, WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE,
WS_EX_CONTEXTHELP, WS_EX_LEFT, WS_EX_LTRREADING,
WS_EX_RIGHTSCROLLBAR, WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT
I tried this, but it still has the system menu. I even tried to
delete the system menu as a response to WM_CREATE, via
GetSystemMenu/DestroyMenu, but that didn't work either.
There must be a way!
