Control in non-client area of form

[peepoohead7]

How do I put a control on the non-client area of a form?

Can a component be painted onto the non-client area? (Bounds)

[tlhintoq]

@peepoohead7
Google is your friend:

This looks like what I think you are wanting.

[peepoohead7]

They put it onto the non-client area of the form, and nothing looks wrong different with microsoft office (word, excel, powerpoint) or the codejock sample I got. So how did they put the control onto the non-client area of the form?

[tlhintoq]

Was the answer to your question first time you asked not what you were looking for?

You really should keep to one thread per question.

[peepoohead7]

It works, but when I put text box onto the control and type into it, anything's thats colored black will become transparent. And maximizing / restoring the window messes it up (although I'll try to solve that). So how do I not let the black color on the controls turn transparent?

[tlhintoq]

@peepoohead7

Set the text color to something other than black?

Use the resize (SizeChanged, SizeChangedComplete, etc) events to relocate the text box.

[Plater]

MERGED.
Please don't double post.
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You want a textbox in the title bar? Interesting.
I would have just turned off the border/titlebar and made my own at that point i think.
Is there a picture/screenshot of what you are trying to do, that link only showed a colored titlebar,which i have also never seen really.

[peepoohead7]

Here are some examples of what I'm trying to do:

This

and This.

Only Windows Vista can paint those windows, but somehow they got the orb and the toolbar onto the title bar. Tlhintoq, your link was what I was looking for, except for the problem I described previously. I'll do some more searching.

[Plater]

Oh so its a vista thing, no wonder i had never seen it

[peepoohead7]

I read in this article that:

Office completely removes the non-client area, and renders everything in its client area, so it doesn't have a caption (except a fake one).

Notice how the glow and the text are different, it's because they're not rendered by the DWM.

I compared the pixels on the top left corner of Word and a program (same location, same size, same background) and it was a bit different.

If I set the text to a different color the text will still appear transparent :(

[peepoohead7]

I got it! Using the link you gave me, I overrid the WndProc property like this:

protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)
        {
            if (m.Msg == 0x83)
            {
                Point point = new Point(m.LParam.ToInt32());
                m.Result = new IntPtr(-1);
                return;
            }
 
            Graphics g = Graphics.FromHwnd(Handle);
            g.DrawString("String",
                new Font("Lucida Console", 10f),
                new SolidBrush(Color.Black),
                PointF.Empty);
 
            base.WndProc(ref m);
        }

Now all I have to do is to remake the buttons and resizing.
Thanks for your help. :)