HelpButton with MaiximizeBox and MinimizeBox = true ???

[Guest]

Hi! I need to display the Help Button together with Maximize and Minimize
buttons on all my Winforms.

From MSDN, "The value of the HelpButton property is ignored if the maximize
or minimize boxes are shown"

What can I do to bypass this "by design" limitation ?

Any URL's/ code samples/ideas are greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance,

--Michael

 

[Tim Wilson]

The suggested work around seems to be to use a menu item in this situation.
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...4bdc4/cd8afa0db51bc2fd?hl=en#cd8afa0db51bc2fd

 

[Guest]

Hi! Thank you for taking a look. I've seen this being done by
custom button painting on the form. In fact, my dual monitor NVidia
software creates a button to span a window across my 2 screens. The button
stays next to Minimize.
I am wandering how they did it so I can do the same ?

Many Thanks in Advance,

--Michael

 

[Tim Wilson]

You'll need to do some custom painting. If you dig through the source
attached to this (http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/mintraybtn.asp) article
you should be able to figure out what you need. Don't forget that you will
need to handle a change in the visual style. So, for example, "classic"
windows look versus the windows xp look.