Moving a Form with no Control Box

[cajsoft]

Hello Folks,
How can I allow my form to be movable even when the control box is disabled. The form is a small rectangular form that has 4 small images placed on it, that covers most of the form. ie. there is no clickable area on the form that would allow for a form_click() event.

Please help
Thanks.

Craig J

Novice VB Programmer.... and proud of it...

[crispin]

not exactly sure what you're trying to do here, but this code will move a form from one place to another, to try it paste the code into a form with a button on it, run it and click the button

'BEGIN CODE
Private Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal cx As Long, ByVal cy As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long) As Long
Private Const HWND_TOP = 0
Private Const SWP_SHOWWINDOW = &H40


Private Sub Command1_Click()
SetWindowPos Me.hwnd, HWND_TOP, 10, 10, Me.Width / 15, Me.Height / 15, SWP_SHOWWINDOW
End Sub
'END CODE

Hope this helps


You can also just set the form.Left and form.top properties of you don't want to use the API:

Me.Left = 10
Me.Top = 10
'will have the same effect as SetWindowPos



[Edited by crispin on 10-05-2000 at 12:01 PM]

[cajsoft]

Hi,
thanks for the help, but I think we are both on the wrong track.

What I am trying to achieve is I have a form, that I dont want to look like a form when loaded, ie, remove the control box and minize buttons etc.. but, If I do remove the control box, the form can no longer be moved at runtime. I want to know is there a way that the control box can be removed and the form can still be dragged at runtime.

Thanks again.
CJ

Take a look at this thread.

[cajsoft]

Yes, this is basically what I'm looking for, but it doesnt work for my program, as the form is filled up with Image's, meaning there is no clickable area on the form, only the images.

I dont know if this makes sense to you.. If I could place another frame of some type over the form, this means I could change the code to frame1_mousemove(blah), instead of form1_mousemove(xxx), but unforunately, when I place a frame over the form, the images no longer appear.

This one is a puzzler!

Thanks
Craig.