Drew Wutka
DWUTKA at Marlow.com
Sat Apr 23 21:18:15 CDT 2011
Interesting. Not sure why 2007 would do anything different, but then again, it is 2007... LOL Drew -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 9:25 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Hide Form Title Bar Yes, it does. And that helps. There are twenty five controls on the form, ten pairs of command button/labels and five other command buttons. So having the ability to drag by a label helps. On my 2008 machine, the form has the title bar showing when it opens. As soon as you resize the form by dragging and where on the border, the title bar gets minimized but doesn't go away. So you can still drag by the title bar. At the end of the day yesterday, the client reported that the latest version I sent him was not allowing him to drag at all. So Monday we're going to fire up Team Viewer and I'll see what's what on his machine, which is running 2007. R -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 6:17 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Hide Form Title Bar Do the labels let you drag the form if you put the code behind their mousedown events? Drew -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 8:03 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Hide Form Title Bar On my 2007, you can't drag the form by clicking below the lowest control, as you can in 2003. But there's this little strip along the top of the form that's a different color than the other three sides and looks a bit like a squashed down title bar. I can drag by that. R -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 5:43 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Hide Form Title Bar Odd, I actually tested it in 2007..... do you get an error message? Drew -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 4:40 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Hide Form Title Bar Drew: So here's a complication - works perfectly in 2003, but not in 2007. Any idea why they broke it? :) Rocky -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 9:51 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Hide Form Title Bar I wouldn't say 'normal', but the code example is based on the 'Detail' Sections 'MouseDown' event. So if the only 'area' of the Details section is the spot below your controls, then that is the only area that would work with that event. You can put that code inside the mousedown event of each control that isn't currently reacting to a 'click', like the labels for elapsed time, and they will allow the same behavior. Drew -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:29 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Hide Form Title Bar Drew: It worked but here's an odd thing. The form consists of five small command buttons on the left . To the right of them are ten more command buttons and below each of the ten is a label that shows elapsed time. The form will drag only if the mouse is pressed below the lowest control on the form. Normal behavior? TIA Rocky -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 8:34 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Hide Form Title Bar So here's how you fix that problem: 'Put the following in the declarations: Private Declare Function ReleaseCapture Lib "user32" () As Long Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Any) As Long Private Const HTCAPTION = 2 Private Const WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN = &HA1 Private Const WM_SYSCOMMAND = &H112 'Put the ReleaseCapture and SendMessage lines in the MouseDown even of your form's detail section as below Private Sub Detail_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single) ReleaseCapture SendMessage Me.hwnd, WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN, HTCAPTION, 0& End Sub Those two lines are going to make the 'detail' section act like a window's title bar in letting a using click and drag the window. Drew -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 11:22 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Hide Form Title Bar Lambert: Thanks so much. That worked like a charm. Wish I could understand what was going on there. Only problem is that I now can't drag the form out of the way of what it's blocking and that might be a big problem for the user. Best, Rocky -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Heenan, Lambert Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 7:46 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Hide Form Title Bar I had a need for a form with no border at all, and Google helped me find the code. Regrettably I did not record where I got it, so I cannot credit the author, but a simple API call did the trick. In the form's module include this... Private Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, _ ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Long, ByVal X As Long, ByVal Y As Long, ByVal cx As Long, ByVal cy As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long) As Long Private Declare Function GetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowLongA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long) As Long Private Declare Function SetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "SetWindowLongA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long, ByVal dwNewLong As Long) As Long Private Const GWL_STYLE = (-16) Private Const WS_BORDER = &H800000 Private Const WS_MAXIMIZEBOX = &H10000 Private Const WS_MINIMIZEBOX = &H20000 Private Const WS_DLGFRAME = &H400000 Private Const WS_THICKFRAME = &H40000 Private Const SWP_FRAMECHANGED = &H20 Private Const SWP_NOMOVE = &H2 Private Const SWP_NOSIZE = &H1 Private Const SWP_NOZORDER = &H4 Then, for my borderless for the form's Load event was... Private Sub Form_Load() Dim lStyle As Long lStyle = GetWindowLong(Me.hwnd, GWL_STYLE) lStyle = lStyle And Not (WS_BORDER Or WS_DLGFRAME Or WS_MAXIMIZEBOX Or WS_MINIMIZEBOX Or WS_THICKFRAME) Call SetWindowLong(Me.hwnd, GWL_STYLE, lStyle) SWP_NOSIZE Or SWP_NOZORDER End Sub By changing that load event to the following you wind up with a form with no title bar but with a sizable border (though it starts out with a height that includes the invisible title bar???). Private Sub Form_Load() Dim lStyle As Long lStyle = GetWindowLong(Me.hwnd, GWL_STYLE) lStyle = lStyle And Not (WS_DLGFRAME Or WS_MAXIMIZEBOX Or WS_MINIMIZEBOX) Call SetWindowLong(Me.hwnd, GWL_STYLE, lStyle) End Sub Be sure to set the form's border style to Sizable. Lambert -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 4:37 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: [AccessD] Hide Form Title Bar Dear List: I want to eliminate the form title bar on a pop up form but still need the border to be sizable. Is there a way to do this? 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