How can I add button at titlebar ?

[conan]

Hello
How i add my personal button at titlebar.
Especially I want put it beside minimizebox.
Now I can us visual basic and visual c++.
I prefer to use visual basic.
Good bye.

[Dr_Michael]

I would suggest to create your own title bar:
set controlbox property to false and the set the caption to be empty (null string).
Then create an image (maybe with Photoshop) and add an image on your form and set its picture property to this bitmap. You can add over this image any button you want and also any label or icon you want. I have created great title bars such way!!! Good creation!!!

Michael Vlastos
Company MODUS SA
Development Department
Athens, Greece
Tel: +3-01-9414900

[Chris Eastwood]

Matt Hart (http://www.matthart.com) wrote an article on this in the March edition of the Visual Basic Programmers Journal. I couldn't find the code for this on his site, but you should be able to get it from the VBPJ site at http://www.vbpj.com


Chris Eastwood

CodeGuru - the website for developers
http://www.codeguru.com/vb

[Ravi Kiran]

Hi,

Dr_Micheal's reply is a nice trick, by the way. It is the way people use to do till the days of VB 5, i guess. For all practical purposes it would work, Unless ofcourse you want to keep changing your Forms caption on the run.. :-)

With Vb 5, it allows you to subclass. SO you can subclass the form. I think you have to add extra buttons, for the system/control box. You get a WM_SYSCommand when something happens there and you need to process it. That is a broad picture, under which you need to work. Indicentally , on similar lines goes the shading the title-bar technique.

RK