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Custom drawn system menu (like Winamp3)

Postby Dan » Fri, 04 Jul 2003 18:25:46 GMT 

Hi,

We are trying to create a window with a system menu 
completely customized (and custom drawn) like Winamp3 has.
If I could disable the system menu, I could handle some 
windows messages to display a custom window that will act 
as my custom menu.
I can disable the standard system menu by intercepting 
some messages in WndProc (WM_ENTERMENULOOP, WM_SYSCOMMAND, 
WM_INITMENU, WM_CONTEXTMENU, WM_INITMENUPOPUP) but it 
works only when clicking on the titlebar, it doesn't work 
when rightclicking on the taskbar button of the 
application.
So the thing is I cannot disable that standard menu and 
replace it with my own window that will act as a menu.
A short example should be enough, but I cant find it... :-(

Thanks.

P.S. Also I cant seem to find out how to set an icon and a 
system menu to the taskbar button of a window that doesn't 
have a titlebar, but that's a different one :)
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Re: Custom drawn system menu (like Winamp3)

Postby pollux2008 » Sat, 05 Jul 2003 20:46:33 GMT 

through spy++,you can see,a message which number is 0x313 
will sended when you rightclicking on the taskbar button 
of the application.

you can add WS_SYSMENU style to you window
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Re: Custom drawn system menu (like Winamp3)

Postby Plugware » Tue, 22 Jul 2003 03:41:47 GMT 

See the article on CodeGuru re bitmap captions and my response to it, as the
principles are the same.

Regards

Andy
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