[2005] Top of explorer... help..

[TetovaBoy]

hi can some one tell me how to change the look of the minimize maximize and the close button tab as i want the design..?


to hide its normal looking and me add my extra design..

i want to know how to make my own window design

[.paul.]

you can remove the buttons with the controlbox property.
if you want to draw your own buttons heres an example

[TetovaBoy]

nope what i meaned was a new design of window....


not just the icons or buttons i want 2 make my owen window and use it in application how can i do that

[.paul.]

what do you want your application to do?
you just add a form to your project + add controls to the form.

[TetovaBoy]

yah 2 give my style to the applications...
here is an example here see this has the vista looking style..
i downloaded trial and tested

im using xp but the application had the vista style


i want 2 add same for design as a vista style

on the window starting from top part ending with a design of status bad..

hope u uenderstood me

sorry my english not soo good

[.paul.]

you didn't upload an image or an example.

you might find that vista styles are specific to vista, but you can make your form so it has a vista look + style in xp.

upload the image of the form style you want + i'll try to help

[TetovaBoy]

here is the exaMPLE how it looks like this is what i meaned2 change the looking of window..


2 make my own design

[jmcilhinney]

A common recommendation for this type of thing is to hid the border and draw your own. That can work although it's a bit of a hack. If you want to change the appearance of the non-client area then that's exactly what you should do. .NET doesn't provide direct access to the non-client area of a form though, so it requires unmanaged code. Here's a good run down of the "proper" way.

That said though, I'll point out again that a person asking how to tart up their UI is the person with a very low post count. UI's might be the most visible aspect of an application but skinning is a long way down the list of aspects that are important to an application. I recommend to anyone and everyone that you learn to code to a reasonably competent level before worrying about creating fancy interfaces.