Resizing a form

[Mc Brain]

Is there any way to resize or move a none-border form? (without any extra code)

[The Hobo]

It takes code to do everything!

You can make resizer controls out of image controls (without images in them) To move it, just search the forums for moving a borderless window.

[The Hobo]

Move a Borderless Form: http://www.vbshelf.com/snippets.php?...cat=forms&id=5

[Mc Brain]

Thanks Hobo... I took your advice and found this:

Originally posted by Hack

Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "User32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Any) As Long
Private Declare Sub ReleaseCapture Lib "User32" ()
 
Private Sub Picture1_MouseMove(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
Const WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN = &HA1
    Const HTCAPTION = 2
    If Button = 1 Then
        ReleaseCapture
        SendMessage Me.hWnd, WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN, HTCAPTION, 0&
    End If
End Sub

I didn't know how to search it before.

[Mc Brain]

Ok... since that you said the "magic word" before, how about resizing it? and having a task (in the task bar)

[The Hobo]

This is how I handled form resizing when I was working on a Skinning Application. It should give you a good idea (I never finished the project, so it's still buggy):

[Mc Brain]

Ok... I've already achieve to resize and move a borderless window. Any way to have a task in the task bar?

[The Hobo]

Set the ShowInTaskbar property to True?

[Mc Brain]

Could that be that easy? It seems that the ShowInTaskBar sets to false when you set to borderless. Is there anyway to set its icon?

[The Hobo]

When you change a forms property to borderless, it does set ShowInTaskbar to False, but you can then return it to True.

An icon in the taskbar with it is going to be tricky. I don't think you can just do it normally. It might take API and/or subclasing.