Question

I just want to create an application with several functions.

but i don’t need a normal window frame with this:

1. title bar …
2. min/max/close button …
3. bottom status bar ….

here is what I need :

1. the whole application is a standalone bar, this small bar is about 200*20 pixels on top of the screen
2. show message text and current time on this bar
3. with the mouse left click and drag to move the bar, change position …
4. on the right click menu with an option to exit the application

could you please give me some examples to explore the windows programming

Answer 1

1. Can be done with window styling as described by @Deanna
2. Can be achieved with a timer via SetTimer firing WM_TIMER messages. On your handler, you get the time, generate the string and use SetWindowText on some static control in your window.
3. This can be done by handling WM_NCHITTEST as described here.
4. For this, you need to handle WM_CONTEXTMENU, generating a right-click menu via TrackPopupMenu/TrackPopupMenuEx

For more specific questions, you should probably pose a new question since right now your question is very general and broad.