Dialog Box problem

[dougiem]

I am trying to create a modal resource dialog box with no caption bar to hold a Tab Control which fills the dialog box (exits are on tabs).    Can anyone help with what styles I should be using. (xp)

thanks, dougiem.

[petezl]

I'm not sure I understood your question correctly!
What I have used is:

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MainDlg DIALOGEX MOVEABLE IMPURE LOADONCALL DISCARDABLE 10, 10, 274, 109, 0
STYLE DS_MODALFRAME | 0x0004 | DS_CENTER | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU |
WS_VISIBLE | WS_POPUP | DS_3DLOOK | WS_MINIMIZEBOX
for the main Dialog and

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ChildDlg_1 DIALOG DISCARDABLE 20, 15, 232, 89
STYLE WS_CHILD for the child's...

Peter.

[dougiem]

Hi, My oject is to have a tab control (3tabs) come up on my application Without the title bar or sys menu.
I can do this by creating a tab control window and populating. However I want my application to be 'dead' until
the tab control is closed. As in Model. As they say, 'A picture is worth a thousand words' attached - jpeg

Thanks, dougiem


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[Tedd]

You can use styles such as "NOT WS_BORDER" so I would assume "NOT WS_SYSMENU | NOT WS_CAPTION" will work?
The problem is that the DIALOG resource sets certain styles by default - so you have to unset them :wink

[petezl]

It would be interested in any solution to this!
Tried last night, managed to remove everything apart from the XP colouring which would achieve what you want.

I expect the solution lies in catching the call to windows !

Peter.

[lamer]

That's all you need:

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IDD_DLG1 DIALOGEX 6,6,272,172
STYLE 0x90000000 ;WS_POPUP | WS_VISIBLE
EXSTYLE 0x00000000
No border, no caption...

[dougiem]

Thanks all.
lamer, that worked great  :clap:

dougiem.