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Form title bar font and colour?????

Hi All

I new to this area and i think that this question may be a little tricky....

I want to change the title bar colour from the windows standard to a chosen colour of my choice, preferably a different colour and may be a fade, but i also want to change the font.

The key point is that i do not want to change this for all programs running, just the one i want to distribute.

This code must work for all Ms Windows platforms, from Windows 95 and beyond.

Any help would be grateful.

Thanks all.

marconovaro

You can do something like this:
draw a picturebox in the form, and set the border of the form to "None".
Then, you'll need subclassing in order to know when the user tries to click your new caption bar.
Here is an example (with code) of how to do that:

"Moving Forms and Creating Resize Gripper Boxes"
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/Libraries/Subclassing/Reliable_Interception_of_WM_NCHITTEST/article.asp

Hope this helps
M

Hossy

right, marco

mike, you'll essentially need to create your own titlebar since windows draws the title bar and not the program.

MikeMinton

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Thanks M

But, only problem with your code is that the form then no longer becomes 3d and looks quite basic, not only that but the picture box is only a single colour.

Thanks

Mike

MikeMinton

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Does anyone then know how to make a form 3d if the form has no border?

MikeMinton

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Does anyone then know how to make a form 3d if the form has no border?

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