Caption buttons and system menus

[imagenetics]

1. Is there any way to hide Maximize button but keep the Minimize button visible and functional? If you simply disable it, it stays visible.

2. How to add a button to form's caption bar which minimizes the window to tray (you can see such thing, for example, on GetRight windows - a button with little dot in the corner)?

3. How to add custom items to system menus (the one you get by right-clicking on taskbar buttons)? For example an "About..." item which displays a window.

4. Suppose I want to create a window which function as a message box (with additional "Don't show this again" checkbox). In Windows when you get a prompt with only OK button available, the Close (X) caption button is grayed and inactive. How can I do this on my custom message box?

Thanks!

 

[imagenetics]

Close button on message boxes is grayed when there are more than one buttons and user has to choose an action. My mistake.

 

[cyprus106]

I know this probably isn't what you want to hear, but there's a great component by

http://www.appcontrols.com

that gives you the ability to add a button in the caption. From there, making the button have the form close to the system tray is incredibly easy. I use it in EVERY one of my Borland created programs.
I've got some code to create the button yourself that some people and I wrote up, but I can peronally tell you that it took 3 of us to make and modify, it's not perfect and it was a HUGE pain to do. I can say I've done both the nonpaying and the paying and shelling out the $20 on this component was well worth it.



Cyprus

 

[imagenetics]

Thanks, but I've tried the AppControls thing. It doesn't support Windows XP visual styles which is not good.

 

[cyprus106]

Mine does? I've been programming with it the past 3 days on my XP machine. In fact, I was using it 30 seconds ago, it worked fine. You may want to download an updated version or talk to the guys at AppControls. They're good people, they'd help. I vaguely recall mine doing that years ago when XP came out but now it works like a charm, so I dunno.




Cyprus