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Is it possible to show subscripts on the title bar

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xwb

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I would like to show something like "CO2 Output" or "H2SO4 Output" with the numbers as subscripts. Does anyone know if this is possible? I can't set any font characteristics for the characters in the title bar.
 
Having looked at a lot of web sites, it doesn't look like this is possible.

What someone suggested is to create a window without a title bar and make up my own title bar with my own special font settings.

I can make a very basic one which slaps on the colour and the title in the font that I need but it doesn't look like a normal title bar because I haven't programmed in the shading or any of the other standard behaviour.

Does anyone have code for a title bar? Would be nice if it was an FLTK title bar but Windows SDK or MFC would suffice - they're quite easy to translate.
 
I'm thinking let the window draw its title bar the way it's used to doing it, but leave the title blank. Then add a window "on top of" the title bar with your text and don't paint the background so the already drawn title bar will "show thru.
 
Idea might work - I'll have to see if I can capture the mouse events so that the fake title bar follows the real title bar when I move the window around. When I did stuff like this in the past, the fake one sometimes stayed behind (as in windows on top of boxes in grids).
 
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