Question

I have a Windows console application written in C++ and want to hide/remove the complete title bar of the console window, including the close, min/max controls etc. I searched a lot but didn’t found anything useful yet.

I inquire the console HWND with GetConsoleWindow and tried to change the console window style with SetWindowLong by removing the WS_CAPTION flag, but this seems to have no effect at all:

HWND hwnd = GetConsoleWindow();
LONG style = GetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_STYLE);
style &= ~(WS_BORDER|WS_CAPTION|WS_THICKFRAME);
SetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_STYLE, style);

SetWindowPos( hwnd, NULL, 0,0,0,0,
       SWP_NOSIZE|SWP_NOMOVE|SWP_NOZORDER|SWP_NOACTIVATE
       |SWP_FRAMECHANGED ); 

I also tried GetSystemMenu/RemoveMenu but this seems only to disable controls like the close button.

Answer 1

You can’t. Generally the hWnd of a console window is not guaranteed to be suitable for all window handle operations as, for example, documented here.