Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!janus.berkeley.edu!kipnis From: kipnis@janus.berkeley.edu (Gary Kipnis) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: opening windows of a certain size Message-ID: <29841@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 26 Jun 89 17:40:35 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: kipnis@janus.berkeley.edu (Gary Kipnis) Distribution: usa Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 15 Thank you to everyone who responded to my question about disabling 'Size' option, as David from Microsoft pointed out when you disable an option from the system menu, MS-Windows enables it when it drop the menu, the correct way to disable 'Size' option is by using WS_THICKBORDER, when calling CreateWindow, since there will not be a thick border, MS-windows will automatically disable the 'Size' option. Here is another question for MS-Windows gurus. How do I open a window s.t. it has a client area of a certain metric size, i.e. 10cmx20cm, in general how do the size parameters that are passed to CreateWindow() translate into actual distances... Thank You, gary