Window with custom title bar

[virhonestum]

Edit: Now I'm going to expand the question, how do I create a custom title bar? So you have custom buttons (I already have those), but also have a part at the top, with which you can drag the window around. I don't need an icon or a title, so the only thing I need is this draggable part.

 

Original Question:

I want to make a GUI, which doesn't use the Windows buttons and has custom minimize/close-buttons.

But when I add the $WS_POPUP style to my GUI, and have the minimize button execute 

GUISetState(@SW_MINIMIZE)

the window has no minimize animation, where the window shrinks and retracts into the task bar.

Is there any way I can remove the border and the upper bar but still have the animation?

Thank you very much

Virhonestum (Vir)

Edited April 9, 2015 by virhonestum

[JLogan3o13]

virhonestum, it is just a tad difficult to troubleshoot the issue off a single line of code. How about providing your entire code, or at least a fair reproducer of the problem?

[virhonestum]

Sorry for the late response, but this the important part of what I'm currently working with:

#Include <GUIConstants.Au3>
#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

$Calculator = GUICreate("", 298, 100, 556, 260, $WS_POPUP)
GUISetBkColor(0xFFFFFF)
$Button_Exit = GUICtrlCreateLabel("×", 256, 0, 41, 17, BitOR($SS_CENTER, $SS_CENTERIMAGE))
GUICtrlSetBkColor(-1, 0xDC0000)
GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0xF2F2F2)
$Button_Minimize = GUICtrlCreateLabel("_", 224, 0, 25, 17, BitOR($SS_CENTER, $SS_CENTERIMAGE))
GUICtrlSetBkColor(-1, 0x1E1E1E)
GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0xF2F2F2)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $nMsg
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $Button_Exit
            Exit
        Case $Button_Minimize
            GUISetState(@SW_MINIMIZE)
    EndSwitch
WEnd

[JohnOne]

With your code, I see the window animation.

[virhonestum]

This is how it looks for me:

On this one the window just disappears

 

And this is how I want it (I removed the $WS_POPUP here)

On this one it shrinks, fades out, and retracts to the task bar

Edited April 9, 2015 by virhonestum

[virhonestum]

I just realized that you cannot drag the window around either, so I added another question (I edited the whole topic)

How am I able to drag the window around?

[JohnOne]

Create an empty label where title bar would normally be, and add the parentdrag style to it.

[reb]

I picked this drag routine from the forums and use it a lot.  I cannot remember who posted it.

#Include <GUIConstants.Au3>
#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <WinAPI.au3> ; <---------------- Added
Global Const $SC_DRAGMOVE = 0xF012 ; <---------------- Added
$Calculator = GUICreate("", 298, 100, 556, 260, $WS_POPUP)
GUISetBkColor(0xFFFFFF)
$Button_Exit = GUICtrlCreateLabel("×", 256, 0, 41, 17, BitOR($SS_CENTER, $SS_CENTERIMAGE))
GUICtrlSetBkColor(-1, 0xDC0000)
GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0xF2F2F2)
$Button_Minimize = GUICtrlCreateLabel("_", 224, 0, 25, 17, BitOR($SS_CENTER, $SS_CENTERIMAGE))
GUICtrlSetBkColor(-1, 0x1E1E1E)
GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0xF2F2F2)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $nMsg
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $Button_Exit
            Exit
        Case $Button_Minimize
            GUISetState(@SW_MINIMIZE)
    EndSwitch
    _SendMessage($Calculator, $WM_SYSCOMMAND, $SC_DRAGMOVE, 0) ; <---------------- Added
WEnd

This runs on my machine.  win8.1  64

REB

[virhonestum]

@JohnOne

Thanks, that's what I needed!

@reb

Definitely gonna save that for later but in this case I don't want it to be draggable everywhere on the window