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RE: Floating Child Windows

• Posted by Don <eunexus at yahoo.com> Aug 06, 2004
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> 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
     mailto: eunexus @ yahoo.com