how to diable resizing window by dragging its sides?

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i dont want to allow the user of my application to resize the window.
window can be resize by two ways
1. through maximizebox
2. by dragging window's sides

enhzflep taught me how to disable maximize button. now i want to know the second

Posted 1-Oct-11 7:15am

Sweety Khan

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Simon Bang Terkildsen · Answer 1 · 2011-10-01T07:19:00

Solution 1

I'm assuming we're on Windows.

When you create the window make sure that the window style (dwStyle) flags doesn't include WS_THICKFRAME.
Or you could handle the window message WM_SIZING to revert any changes to the size the user has made.

Posted 1-Oct-11 7:19am

Simon Bang Terkildsen

Updated 1-Oct-11 7:20am

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Chuck O'Toole · Answer 2 · 2011-10-01T07:21:00

Solution 2

To control the x and y sizes of the window, you can handle the WM_GETMINMAXINFO message and return the smallest you are willing to accept, which can just be the size of the current window, meaning no change allowed.

Bing / Google / Yahoo Search for WM_GETMINMAXINFO for details. Also, this article may help.
http://www.olivierlanglois.net/minmaxdemo.html[^]

Posted 1-Oct-11 7:21am

Chuck O'Toole

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Simon Bang Terkildsen 1-Oct-11 13:35pm

+5. I'm amazed that I didn't know about that one.

Chuck O'Toole 1-Oct-11 13:38pm

Thanks. Can anyone truly know all the wonderfullness that is Windows? :)

Simon Bang Terkildsen 1-Oct-11 13:58pm

No I guess not :)
It just seems like a message one would trip over sooner or later, it took me 16 year to trip over it, granted I haven't been playing around with win32 much the past 5-6 years, but still :)