Native resizing with custom forms

Andrew Hayward

I have a custom form, with all borders, title bar, etc. being drawn
internally. Native borders and so on have been disabled. Because of this,
however, resizing is a bit of a problem, and generally looks quite messy.

Was hoping that I could use the grey border/outline method (ie by not
actually resizing the window) by calling SendMessage with WM_ENTERSIZEMOVE,
but that doesn't seem to work. I'm kind of new to this Windows API stuff,
so if anyone could point me in the right direction...

TIA,

Andrew Hayward

Nov 20 '05 #1

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

* cs***@bath.ac.uk (Andrew Hayward) scripsit:

I have a custom form, with all borders, title bar, etc. being drawn
internally. Native borders and so on have been disabled. Because of this,
however, resizing is a bit of a problem, and generally looks quite messy.

If you do not get an answer here, give the Windows Forms group a try:
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

Nov 20 '05 #2

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