Re: Move a dialog based application without the title bar

From:
"AliR \(VC++ MVP\)" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:08:52 GMT
Message-ID:
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What this is doing is that OnNCHitTest is telling the system that your
entire client area is the caption bar.

AliR.

"Shahoo" <shahookamangar@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Mar 19, 9:47 am, "Ajay Kalra" <ajayka...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Override OnNcHitTest and return HTCAPTION if the mouse is where you want
the
move start from.

--
Ajay Kalra [MVP - VC++]
ajayka...@yahoo.com

"Shahoo" <shahookaman...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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Hi,
I have created a dialog based application without a title bar, and
want to move the dialog using the left mouse button.
I tried MoveWindow nut the window was streching instead of moving !!!
Can anyone help me please?


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Hi and thanks for your help.
I did it with the following two handlers:

void CYourDialog::OnLButtonDown(UINT nFlags, CPoint point)
 {
    CDialog::OnLButtonDown(nFlags, point);
    PostMessage( WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN, HTCAPTION,
         MAKELPARAM( point.x, point.y));
 }

 // Handler for WM_NCHITTEST message

 LONG CYourDialog::OnNcHitTest( UINT uParam, LONG lParam )
 {
    int xPos = LOWORD(lParam);
    int yPos = HIWORD(lParam);
    UINT nHitTest = CDialog::OnNcHitTest(CSize(xPos, yPos));
    return (nHitTest == HTCLIENT) ? HTCAPTION : nHitTest;
 }

can anyone tell me more about waht is happening in them ( I am a
newbie).

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