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Re: creating dialog-like windows using win32lib or CreateWindowEx

• Posted by ed_davis2 at yahoo.com Apr 14, 2004
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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!