Putting up a button on Windows Title Bar

[Rishav]

Hi folks

Any ideas how to add in a button on the title bar itself?

(a small "?" marked button just before the minimize button.)

thanks and regards.

Rishav

[martin]

Hi folks

Any ideas how to add in a button on the title bar itself?

(a small "?" marked button just before the minimize button.)

thanks and regards.

Rishav

Do you mean like the extended style $WS_EX_CONTEXTHELP? Edited December 11, 2009 by martin

[Rishav]

wow. I didn't even know such an option existed.

thanks.

btw, it didn't work for me.

$MainImportGUI = GUICreate("Automata v0.1 beta", 1225, 900, -1, -1, BitOR($WS_SYSMENU, $WS_GROUP), $WS_EX_CONTEXTHELP)

Any ideas on what am i doing wrong?

Edited December 11, 2009 by Rishav

[martin]

wow. I didn't even know such an option existed.

thanks.

btw, it didn't work for me.

$MainImportGUI = GUICreate("Automata v0.1 beta", 1225, 900, -1, -1, BitOR($WS_SYSMENU, $WS_GROUP), $WS_EX_CONTEXTHELP)

Any ideas on what am i doing wrong?

The reason I said "like" was because that style cannot be used with $WS_MAXIMIZEBOX or $WS_MINIMIZEBOX.

$MainImportGUI = GUICreate("Automata v0.1 beta", 1225, 900, -1, -1, _
    BitAnd(BitOR($WS_SYSMENU,$WS_GROUP),BitNot($WS_MAXIMIZEBOX),BitNot($WS_MINIMIZEBOX)), _
    $WS_EX_CONTEXTHELP)

[Rishav]

what about BitOR($WS_SYSMENU, $WS_GROUP)?

[martin]

what about BitOR($WS_SYSMENU, $WS_GROUP)?

It doesn't work for me so I specifically turned off the minimize and maximize buttons.

$WS_GROUP adds the minimize and maximize buttons and those stop the query button being added. At least that's what happens for me although from the help and msdn I don't see why.(why those buttons are added.)

The documentation also says that $WS_SYSMENU must be used with $WS_CAPTION but I can't see it makes any difference.

[Rishav]

Ah Thanks.

Is there any way for me to use this button? Can I call a function every time this button is clicked?

I tried checking guigetmsg value every time the button is clicked but it seems to have no effect.

[Rishav]

so, any ideas?

[martin]

so, any ideas?

The way to use that button is explained here. It isn't really suitable as a general button IMO.

Either you need to draw the caption bar with a button on it, which I think is very difficult , or you could

It might be easier to try something like EzSkin in example scripts.