Hi everyone,

I'm writing a little app for myself in VB1.0 (I like the language, please don't knock it) and it more or less adds buttons into the top-right corner of whatever window is active, like NVidia does.

My problem is that these buttons are on a form. In an application. Which means that I set focus to this toolbar when I click the buttons on it. Which means that... when I click my toolbar's buttons the window the toolbar has locked onto suddenly goes "inactive". Eww!

I've been told to use CreateWindowEx to make a WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW (but wasn't given an example), and although there is a 16-bit call for it (stated below, because the 16-bit call is different from the 32-bit one), I'm not sure if I can create the aforementioned window style, and how/where to start if this actually is possible.

Could anyone please help me? I just want to get the window running and even possibly know how to add controls to it using standard VB methods (now that would be nice).

Thanks
--asmqb

16-Bit CreateWindowEx:
Note the use of the "User" library - not "User32"!

To add a button to a window, you have to modify the file that defines that window. You can't just paste something on top of the window.

What file? This is Windows....

Also, I'm getting Linux soon, so modifying the core of eg fluxbox or changing a couple of config items in KDE or GNOME would probably do that for me... but having those buttons has kinda worn off now anyway

But again... what file?! 0.o

Thanks for your reply.

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