Re: Can I remove the System Menu Icon from the MDI menubar

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:15:02 -0700
Message-ID:
<Oof5kHW8HHA.396@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>
I never do this, but I'd guess you could do it in mainframe.cpp in the
PreCreateWindow() function with something like:

BOOL CMainFrame::PreCreateWindow(CREATESTRUCT& cs)
{
 cs.style &= ~WS_SYSMENU;
// What ever styles you want

}

Tom

"reddyk" <reddyknospamalias@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
news:455AE66B-06A3-4338-AA14-7EDBE9213A57@microsoft.com...

Hi,
   I am working with a standard MDI window application. I want to remove
the System menu and its icon from the top left most corner of the title
bar
from the MDI child windows. I want to retain the maximize/minmize/close
that
are displayed on the right side of the title bar.

With the help of this,
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1865178&SiteID=1 , I
am
able to turn off the system menu icon and also retain the
maximize/minimize/close on the MDI child windows.

The issue is if you maximize the child window, Windows add the System Menu
along with a default icon to the MDI Main window's menu bar. You can see
this
at the top left corner of the menu bar. Is there a way that I can turn off
the System menu and its icon that gets displayed in the menubar when the
child window is maximized?

Thanks in advance,

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