How do you do a form with no titlebar

[Will Pittenger]

It must be top level. I can not write components with this version of C#
(less than Professional). I do want a non-resizing border. I kept looking
for a "ShowTitlebar" property (or something like that), but never found it.
Do I need to write a control? That would not let me have the layout
options. Furthermore, my existing code is written for a form, not a
control. I have no idea what would be needed to convert.

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[Jacky Kwok]

Will Pittenger wrote:

It must be top level. I can not write components with this version of C#
(less than Professional). I do want a non-resizing border. I kept looking
for a "ShowTitlebar" property (or something like that), but never found it.
Do I need to write a control? That would not let me have the layout
options. Furthermore, my existing code is written for a form, not a
control. I have no idea what would be needed to convert.

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Will Pittenger
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Create a Form, set the "ControlBox","MaximizeBox","MinimizeBox" to
false. Set "Text" to empty string. Then, titleBar will disappear.
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Jacky Kwok
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[Marcin Grzêbski]

Hi Jacky,

Will Pittenger wrote:

It must be top level. I can not write components with this version of C#
(less than Professional). I do want a non-resizing border. I kept
looking
for a "ShowTitlebar" property (or something like that), but never
found it.
Do I need to write a control? That would not let me have the layout
options. Furthermore, my existing code is written for a form, not a
control. I have no idea what would be needed to convert.

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Will Pittenger
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Create a Form, set the "ControlBox","MaximizeBox","MinimizeBox" to
false. Set "Text" to empty string. Then, titleBar will disappear.

Very nice trick!
(MaximizeBox & MinimizeBox don't have to be set to false till
ControlBox is set to false)

I allways changed the Form.FormBorderStyle property to disable titlebar.

Regards

Marcin

[fbhcah]

Just set the FormBorderStyle property to None

HTH
fbhca

[Will Pittenger]

I still need the border.

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Just set the FormBorderStyle property to None.

HTH,
fbhcah

[Will Pittenger]

I still need the border.

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Hi Jacky,

Will Pittenger wrote:

It must be top level. I can not write components with this version of C# (less than Professional). I do want a non-resizing border. I kept
looking
for a "ShowTitlebar" property (or something like that), but never
found it.
Do I need to write a control? That would not let me have the layout
options. Furthermore, my existing code is written for a form, not a
control. I have no idea what would be needed to convert.

----------
Will Pittenger
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Create a Form, set the "ControlBox","MaximizeBox","MinimizeBox" to
false. Set "Text" to empty string. Then, titleBar will disappear.

Very nice trick!
(MaximizeBox & MinimizeBox don't have to be set to false till
ControlBox is set to false)

I allways changed the Form.FormBorderStyle property to disable titlebar.

Regards

Marcin

[Will Pittenger]

That works -- but only at design time. The titlebar is still present at
runtime. Besides, since my users will still want to access select commands
while the program is minimized, I need to add stuff to the system menu.
Once you squelch that control box, the system menu is dropped. Is there a
way to respond to right-clicks on the taskbar button?

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"Jacky Kwok" <ja***@hkcompose.com> wrote in message
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Will Pittenger wrote:

It must be top level. I can not write components with this version of C# (less than Professional). I do want a non-resizing border. I kept looking for a "ShowTitlebar" property (or something like that), but never found it. Do I need to write a control? That would not let me have the layout
options. Furthermore, my existing code is written for a form, not a
control. I have no idea what would be needed to convert.

----------
Will Pittenger
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Create a Form, set the "ControlBox","MaximizeBox","MinimizeBox" to
false. Set "Text" to empty string. Then, titleBar will disappear.
--
Jacky Kwok
ja***@alumni.cuhk.edu.hk
ja***@compose.com.hk