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Short story: Create an irregularly shaped form; drag a captionless form.
Longer description from old site: click here.
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This sample, or the one from which it originally derived, was published (or at least peripherally mentioned) in the following article(s):
- Don't Be Square, Programming Techniques, VBPJ, April 1996
- Toggle the Titlebar (and Other Form Tricks), Ask the VB Pro, VBPJ, November 2000
This sample uses the following API calls:
Module Library Function WinRgn.Frm gdi32
user32CreatePolygonRgn
CreateSolidBrush
DeleteObject
FillRgn
Polyline
GetCursorPos
GetSystemMetrics
ReleaseCapture
SendMessage
SetWindowRgnDon't see what you're looking for? Here's a complete API cross-reference.
Please, enjoy and learn from this sample. Include its code within your own projects, if you wish. But, in order to insure only the most recent code is available to all, I ask that you don't share the sample by any form of mass distribution. Download WinRgn.zip, 8Kb, Last Updated: Thursday, October 14, 1999
The following resources may also be of interest:
- Translucent - Create layered windows, to make forms translucent or irregularly shaped, using drop-in class.
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