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Muhammad Zeeshan Karamat
Muhammad Zeeshan Karamat

Reputation: 326

Get rid of Windows typical styles?

I will start developing application for Windows. But I want to get rid of the cancel button and the typical Windows format like:

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And I want it to look something like that, get rid of windows format and design my application in my own way.

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So, will somebody suggest me, how to do that? I searched so much but cannot find any result.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 87

Answers (3)

Andrew Thompson
Andrew Thompson

Reputation: 168815

If this app. is written using the Swing GUI toolkit, it is as simple as either using a JWindow, or calling Frame.setUndecorated(true).

Upvotes: 3

marcinj
marcinj

Reputation: 49976

Hard to tell what language your question is, here is answer for C++ for WinAPI:

Create your window like that:

HWND       hWnd;
WNDCLASS WndCls;

// Create the application window
WndCls.style         = CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW;
WndCls.lpfnWndProc   = WndProcedure;
WndCls.cbClsExtra    = 0;
WndCls.cbWndExtra    = 0;
WndCls.hIcon         = NULL;
WndCls.hCursor       = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);
WndCls.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH);
WndCls.lpszMenuName  = NULL;
WndCls.lpszClassName = _T("WndClassName");
WndCls.hInstance     = GetModuleHandle(NULL);

// Register the window class
RegisterClass(&WndCls);

hWnd = CreateWindow(_T("MyWnd"),
  _T("WndClassName"),
  WS_BORDER,
  CW_USEDEFAULT,
  CW_USEDEFAULT,
  CW_USEDEFAULT,
  CW_USEDEFAULT,
  NULL,
  NULL,
  ::GetModuleHandle(0),
  NULL);

and then:

::ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_SHOW);
SetWindowLong(hWnd, GWL_STYLE, 0);

you will have a white rectangle app which you will be able to paint however you like.

Also, you can spy on window styles using Spy++ from Visual Studio package

Upvotes: 2

Drkawashima
Drkawashima

Reputation: 9762

It's called the Titlebar. Hide it by removing the form border style.

this.FormBorderStyle= System.Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.None;

Upvotes: 0

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