How to set the border width of dialog box

[Ganesh_T]

I have ceated a dialog box whose bporder width seems to be thick around 2 pixel. How can I increase/decrease the boreder width of dialog box Any kind of help is appreciated. Cheers

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[Nibu babu thomas]

You need to increase non client area size for this purpose handle WM_NCCALCSIZE, add a message map entry for ON_WM_NCCALCSIZE()... A sample implementation looks likewise...

void CDialogTestDlg::OnNcCalcSize(BOOL bCalcValidRects, NCCALCSIZE_PARAMS* lpncsp)
{
UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER( bCalcValidRects ); // Read the docs on this variable

// Increase border width by 4!
lpncsp->rgrc->top += 4;
lpncsp->rgrc->left += 4;
lpncsp->rgrc->bottom -= 4;
lpncsp->rgrc->right -= 4;
CWnd::OnNcCalcSize( bCalcValidRects, lpncsp );
}

Also note that you may need to handle WM_NCPAINT to fill out increased region.

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