Re: How do you make a DLL that can resize a window and give it your own skin ?

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  • Posted by ghaberek (admin) Jul 23, 2012
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tamajongphilip said...

How do you make a DLL that can resize a window and give it your own skin ? ( I don't mean human skin. I mean a custom graphical appearance for the window.)

This can be done, but it's generally pretty difficult. The first place to start is with catching the WM_NCPAINT (NC = non-client area, or the "frame" around a window). A quick search for "skin" in The Archive shows a few existing attempts at this. A DLL would not be required; your application could do this natively. Also, this only works on Windows.

-Greg

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