Customize Title Bar

[B.]

Does any body knows how can I customize winform's title bar to add
some controls. For example, I need to add a text box and a button.

Thanks.

 

[Robbe Morris - MVP C#]

Winforms do not support that. The close thing you could do
is go borderless on the form and make up your own minimize,
maximize, and close buttons.

 

[RickL]

Robbe,

When I create a borderless form and run the application, the task bar
icon has no text. Normally, it would display the titlebar text.

Is there a way to overcome this problem?

Thanks,
RickL

 

[Mick Doherty]

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1763858&SiteID=1

 

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

You can override WndProc to catch the various WM_NCxxx messages to draw
custom controls, handle clicks and such.


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[KK]

hi bob,

thats an interesting suggestion.

actually, now there is a big community of developers who is working on .NET
and C# (properly) but which will not have any background in MFC or Win32!

can you PLEASE provide ANY example on what can be achieved by WndProc or
CreateParameters etc.

I know its kinda too much to ask for code samples, but still, if you can
provide some expert snippets, would help the community a lot.

 

[Mick Doherty]

A C# example:
http://geekswithblogs.net/kobush/articles/CustomBorderForms.aspx

An older MFC example:
http://www.catch22.net/tuts/titlebar.asp

 

[B.]

I went throught all those posts/examples, most of them are talking
about paint the title bar programmatcially. It is easier for a button,
but how about a text box or richedit box, how can such control takes
users input of text?

Thanks.

 

[B.]

Hi Bob,

Can I paint a textbox or richedit box and still allow user to type in?
Thanks.

 

[B.]

Hi Bob,

How do you draw controls like text box, richedit box and still allow
user type in text? Thanks.