Live Messenger

[Nathan Going]

How does Windows Live Messenger hide its frame like that? You press Alt and it shows. Does it SetWindowRgn around itself? Thank you.

[Perspx]

I assume that the border and caption around the window is simply removed using SetWindowLong() with GWL_STYLE :) Regards, --Perspx

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[led mike]

Yeah but hopefully they followed their own advice and used SetWindowLongPtr ;)

led mike

[Nathan Going]

I just tried that, which does work, I would just need to resize the window each time so the contents stay in same location. What I am seeing with the Windows Live Messenger is that the caption and thickframe is just hidden. View 1 shows that when the window is captured via ALT-Printscreen, that it is actually the full dimensions of the caption and frame. View 2 shows it with the frame in place. I was just curious how they accomplished this. Thanks.

modified on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:20 AM

[Perspx]

Is that like the programming version of being politically correct or something? :sigh: Regards, --Perspx

"The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript

[led mike]

Perspx wrote:

Is that like the programming version of being politically correct or something?

No, it's more like the programming version of RTFM. You walked right into that one. :laugh:

led mike