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How to get rid of a forms' caption bar

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PeteG

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Hi,
I'm sure this is simple but just cannot find out how to do it. I do not want to see the caption bar at the top of my form - the bar that contains the forms name. The only way I can find at the moment is to set the form borderstyle to 'none', but then I lose the border around the form which I would like to keep.
If I have to keep the caption bar visible, can I change the text within it and the background/fore colour (seems to inherit my Windows desktop colours at the moment)?

Thanks

Pete
 
OK - I found how to do that; just set the text value to "" and the ControlBox property to false. But that highlights another problem - once the caption bar disappears, there is no way to move the form. You don't have the caption bar to click and drag the form around. Anybody know of a way of changing the forms behaviour so that I can, say, click on the form background and be able to drag it?
 
Yeah Pete, you should be able to code your form to do that with the MouseMove event.
 
Yeah thanks - I'd just found that out when I got your response!!
 
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