Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!hyper.hyper.com!bonneau
From: bonneau@hyper.hyper.com (Paul Bonneau)
Subject: Re: HOW CAN I GET AN MDI-CHILD W/ STYLE OF (WS_BORDER|WS_MINIMIZEBOX)!!!!!!!!!!
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.192416.5548@hyper.hyper.com>
Reply-To: bonneau@hyper.UUCP (Paul Bonneau,,)
Organization: HyperCube Inc.
References: <7458@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 19:24:16 GMT

In article <7458@vela.acs.oakland.edu> rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Robert D. Thompson) writes:
>
>Someone,
>
>	I have an MDI Application and I want the Child/Document Windows
>	of it not to have thickframes (for resizing) and not to have
>	a maximize box.  I need all other functionality of the MDI
>	API, including tiling, cascading, minimizing into icons, etc...
>
>	But my windows are dialogs - and I do not want the user to be
>	able to size them and maximize.
>
>	I have tried,
>
>		GetWindowLong, XOR with WS_THICKFRAME and WS_MAXIMIZE BOX
>
>	and it works - at first.
>
>	Subsequent MDI calls cause the style to revert once again back
>	to a thickframe with a maximize box.
>
Your problem is that SetWindowLong() only affects a
particular window (ie. an instance of a class, ie. object),
not the entire class.  What might try to do is use the
SetWindowLong() in the WM_CREATE message (or perhaps
WM_NCCREATE mesasge if you get one) of the window proc
itself.

cheers - Paul Bonneau.