Replace Title/Caption bar min,max,close buttons

[venkatapathiraju_t]

Actually i want to place my own bitmap instead of windows xp default close button bitmap.

-> How can i Replace Default Close button without disabling SYS_MENU property ( or )
-> how can i hide the close button in the title bar without changing the System Menu property.

Thanks in Advance

[jayender.vs]

Actually i want to place my own bitmap instead of windows xp default close button bitmap.

-> How can i Replace Default Close button without disabling SYS_MENU property ( or )
-> how can i hide the close button in the title bar without changing the System Menu property.

Thanks in Advance

I guess you can't hide it, but you can disable it by disabling the SC_CLOSE item in the system menu for the window.

EnableMenuItem (hMenu, SC_CLOSE, MF_GRAYED);

[venkatapathiraju_t]

EnableMenuItem disables the close button, but i want to replace close button[X] image with my own bitmap, something like skin based applications.

[Bornish]

Override OnEraseBkgnd or process WM_ERASEBKGND to draw your own caption using DrawCaption(), and repainting the buttons as you like.
Process WM_NC* (non-client messages), or in MFC, override OnNc* (non-client overrides).
Removing WS_SYSMENU style will remove the close button, but also the system menu of that window.
Disabling close button can be achieved with:
ModifyMenu(hMenu, SC_CLOSE, MF_BYCOMMAND|MF_GRAYED, SC_CLOSE, "Close");
Removing it can be achieved with:
RemoveMenu(hMenu,SC_CLOSE,MF_BYCOMMAND);
Regards,

[Gunaamirthavelu]

use this code to disable the close button and remove the close menu in the dialog box(click on the left top of the dialog box).

BOOL bEnable = TRUE;    
UINT menuf = bEnable ? (MF_BYCOMMAND) : (MF_BYCOMMAND | MF_GRAYED | MF_DISABLED);
CMenu* pSM = GetSystemMenu(FALSE);
if(pSM)
{
	pSM->RemoveMenu(SC_CLOSE,menuf);
}

[venkatapathiraju_t]

I want to disable the close button only (not close menu).
I want to have the close menu in the dialog box.