How to chane title bar of a window form in C#

[WinSolution]

Hi Everybody If anyone can one help me to change the traditional title bar for a window form in C# so i can use an image insted of that and can atach button such as Minimize, Maximize and Close of my own design please help me by example or give me any reffrence urls for help thanks Altaf

[Kristian Sixhoj]

You need to set the FormborderStyle to None and then create your own title bar from scratch. It's actually easy.. Just drop some labels, buttons, whatsoever at the top of your form. Or perhaps create a panel just for the title bar.

Kristian Sixhoej

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"Failure is not an option" - Gene Kranz

[WinSolution]

Hi Kristian Sixhoej Thanks for quick response That thing was also in my mind but i was thininking that is there any method to overide it. the prolem is this when i hv about 25 forms then it will be a tedious task what u think? i want some wrriten method just written one time any copy paste to toher forms. Possibely by overriding paint method or ........ but i hv no idea yet about overriding paint method (i mean what can i do with it. Is the thing i m saying is possible with this or not) waiting for ur reply.

[Kristian Sixhoj]

As far as I know, it isn't possible to change the title bar programmatically (except from changing the text, but that could just be done via the Text property). The easiest and most comfortable way would propably be to do it in this way. But then you also have 100% control over what the title bar will get to look like. EDIT: By the way, if you're experienced in doing user controls, you could make the title bar as a user control and just drag and drop it onto each form. -- modified at 15:36 Friday 23rd November, 2007

Kristian Sixhoej

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"Failure is not an option" - Gene Kranz

[WinSolution]

Hi Kristian Sixhoej Is there any method when i click on a button labeled as "Minimize" the form get Minimized (and for maximize also) i have not found that in inteliSense Popup with this handle

[Kristian Sixhoj]

You need to use some API functions to do that. Read about ShowWindow() in this article: http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/windowhider.asp[^]

Kristian Sixhoej

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"Failure is not an option" - Gene Kranz

[Xmen Real]

For Maximize and Minimize, use

this.WindowState = System.Windows.Forms.FormWindowState.Maximized;
this.WindowState = System.Windows.Forms.FormWindowState.Minimized;

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