Any tips on how to simulate the minimize button & behaviour
UPDATE – the minimize button needs to be on the caption bar as screen real estate is @ a premium
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Any tips on how to simulate the minimize button & behaviour
UPDATE – the minimize button needs to be on the caption bar as screen real estate is @ a premium
Probably the best you are going to get on this is to follow what some others have done and tweak it as you need to. This question has been asked before and there are some good starting points here. The basic process is, you need to override
WndProcto catch the message when the title bar is drawn, moved etc. Then you can inject your own paint method there. The real trouble you are going to have is all the code you will need to write to make your custom button match the current windows theme. In the end, you really are better off rethinking your form design to include the functionality elsewhere.