Re: SDI app with no Titlebar?

From:
"L.Allan" <l.allan@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:41:33 -0700
Message-ID:
<Or$hBwbSIHA.4196@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
Works fine, but now I'm trying to figure out how to "toggle" back and forth.
I can define a user message to "Freeze" the position by starting with the
TitleBar off (and thick frame to allow resizing). However, I want to allow
the user to "unfreeze" the position so they can drag it to another locaton
with the TitleBar.

The LoadFrame works ok with:
ModifyStyle(WS_CAPTION, 0, SWP_FRAMECHANGED);

But it seems "too late" to call LoadFrame again ... nothing happens. Should
I destroy the frame and recreate? If so, how?

I may try this with a CDialog based app ... I suppose I can Quit the DoModal
and have something like:
int nResponse;
do {
   nResponse = dlg.DoModal();
   if (nResponse == IDOK) {
      // TODO: Dismissed with OK
   }
   else if (nResponse == IDCANCEL) {
     // TODO: Dismissed with Cancel
   }
} while ((nResponse != IDOK) && (nResponse != IDCANCEL));

Here is the definition from the NoTitleDlg.rc:
IDD_NOTITLEDLG_DIALOG DIALOGEX 0, 0, 147, 201
STYLE DS_MODALFRAME | WS_POPUP | WS_VISIBLE
EXSTYLE WS_EX_APPWINDOW
FONT 8, "MS Sans Serif"
BEGIN
    DEFPUSHBUTTON "OK",IDOK,87,7,50,14
    PUSHBUTTON "Cancel",IDCANCEL,87,23,50,14
    PUSHBUTTON "Freeze",IDC_FREEZE,87,41,50,14
    PUSHBUTTON "Unfreeze",IDC_UNFREEZE,87,59,50,14
END

But I'm very fuzzy what to do within the OnInitDialog function ... or should
I have another IDD_TITLEDLG_DIALOG defined???

"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com> wrote in message
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"L.Allan" <l.allan@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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I'm trying to have a SDI (single document interface) application with no
title-bar.

I've been able to get a CDialog based app to have no titlebar, but I want
to use the DocView framework. I don't see how to remove the titlebar with
SDI.

Can this be done in the CMainFrame::PreCreateWindow by adjusting:
 cs.style = ?
 ModifyStyle(?, ?, ?);

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