titlebar and icon

[conan]

Hellow!

I want make a window without titlebar. but I want insert

icon and text into titlebar of taskbar.

The other words, I want make window alike Winamp.

If we run the winamp program, We see winamp icon and song name

on winamp'titlebar of taskbar.

Present, I can insert text into titlebar of taskbar to use

"WindowText()" API function. But I can't insert icon into

titlebar of taskbar.

Please Help me!.

I'm looking forward to you good answer.

Thank you!.....^_^

[Steve N]

I am a VisualC guy who has done that, but I don't know if it is possible in VisualB. Add the style (vb equivalent of...) WM_SYSMENU to your window style and it should be fine, but as I said, i am a VC guy, don't know any VB really...

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Steve N
Multimedia programmer, wanna-be dj/vj

Please rate my posts so I know how much of an idiot I am...
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[Marius Mare]

Hi,
I had the same problem and I solved it in the following way:

1. Set BorderStyle=1-Fixed Single, ShowInTaskar=true;
Set the caption and the icon of the form;

2. Use the following API declarations:
public Declare Function GetSystemMetrics Lib "user32" (byval nIndex as Long) as Long
public Declare Function SetWindowRgn Lib "user32" (byval hwnd as Long, byval hRgn as Long, byval bRedraw as Boolean) as Long
public Declare Function CreateRectRgn Lib "gdi32" (byval X1 as Long, byval Y1 as Long, byval X2 as Long, byval Y2 as Long) as Long
public Declare Function DeleteObject Lib "gdi32" (byval hObject as Long) as Long



3. Use the following code into your form:
private Sub Form_Load()
'SystemMetrics(30) returns the size of TitleBar window
m_shpTitlebarLess = CreateRectRgn(0, GetSystemMetrics(30) + 2, me.Width, me.Height)
SetWindowRgn hwnd, m_shpTitlebarLess, true
End Sub

private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel as Integer)
SetWindowRgn hwnd, 0, false
DeleteObject m_shpTitlebarLess
End Sub



Thus, your titlebar is 'cutted', by creating a shape that doesn't include it.
You will get a window without the standard titlebar, but with icon and caption in taskbar - as WinAmp.