Re: Overlay on camera display window

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From: Hans-Jochen Trost
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:45

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Remy,

   [snip]
>>    hwndCross = CreateWindow(szCrosshair, NULL,
>>                                WS_BORDER,
>>                                mainRect.left +
>>                                   GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXBORDER) - 1,
>>                               . . .
   [snip]
>Try using WS_DLGFRAME instead of WS_BORDER.  As per MSDN:
>
>    WS_DLGFRAME
>    Creates a window that has a border of a style typically used with dialog
>boxes. A window with this style cannot have a title bar.

Tried it, no change.  The title bar stays.

>Alternatively, don't use a separate window for the cross in the first place.
>Draw it directly onto the in-memory bitmap like I suggested earlier.

I got that to work this afternoon, so I have a decent solution.  I
think I'm not going to worry any more about that title bar.  I'm
planning to move to wxWidgets for my windowing and GUI code anyway.

Thanks again.

Cheers,               Jochen

hjtrost at microfab dot com


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