Hi,

I've developed an application that contains a few borderless windows forms. I had included all the code necessary for the form move, close and minimize operations. However, when I left-click on the window button on the taskbar, I'm not able to hook in the events that happen in the case of the normal window (such as minimize and restore on clicking on the window button on the taskbar). After quite a bit of hunt online, I could find that hexadecimal code for mouse right click to be 0x0313 and I was able to bring a context menu. I'm still looking out for the hexadecimal code for left mouse click, using which, I believe I can hook in the minimize and restore events. Can anyone please help me out? Also, please suggest other ideas if I'm going about in a wrong direction.

Thanks in Advance,
ramz_g

I'm guessing your are talking about the system menu. A borderless form indeed doesn't have one. Get it back by pasting this code anywhere in your form:

protected override CreateParams CreateParams {
get {
CreateParams cp = base.CreateParams;
cp.Style |= 0x80000; // Turn on WS_SYSMENU
return cp;
}
}

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Hans Passant.

Hi,

Could you tell us how do you create these borderless forms?

Harry

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Hi Harry,

I just set the FormBorderStyle to None to get a borderless form.

Thanks,
ramz_g

I'm guessing your are talking about the system menu. A borderless form indeed doesn't have one. Get it back by pasting this code anywhere in your form:

protected override CreateParams CreateParams {
get {
CreateParams cp = base.CreateParams;
cp.Style |= 0x80000; // Turn on WS_SYSMENU
return cp;
}
}

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Hans Passant.

Please post any winform/control related questions to the Windows Forms General forum. The C# forum is for C# related questions on the language constructs and not indirect component usage. thx I will move it this time....

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William Wegerson (www.OmegaCoder.Com)

Hi,

Thanks for the reply... That helped a lot... However, I have another issue with the system menu... Currently, when I try to maximize my form, a part of the form is cut off on the right side... I guess I should override the events in the system menu... Please suggest on How I can override the events of the system menu items?

Thanks,
ramz_g

Hi All,

This issue has been resolved. This helped a lot :

protected override CreateParams CreateParams
{
get
{
CreateParams cp = base.CreateParams;
cp.Style |= 0x80000; // Turn on WS_SYSMENU
return cp;
}
}

Thanks a lot for your help,
ramz_g