Iconify minimized child window in an MDI app

[mishka00]

Hello gurus,

When a child frame window in an MDI app is minimized, it takes the shape of a clipped title bar with a small icon, title, and min/max/close buttons. I'm looking for a way to instead display a 32x32 icon with some text below it (as in a shortcut icon on a Windows desktop). I've looked all over but couldn't find much help. There was some mention of using OnNcPaint and manually drawing an icon and text, but I'm not very familiar with how to do that (I can see some complications arising when trying to create a transparent space, for example, between the icon and the text, etc), so I was hoping there'd be a more elegant (or hackerish) way of doing this. Any suggestions or pointers?

Thanks in advance,

\Mike

[MrBeans]

Unfortunately WM_NCPAINT message handling is only way you got for this requirement.