Hey,
    You all know the defualt GUI the oldcontrol box and blue title bar stuff. You all, also know about the Windows Media Player 10 and 11 GUI, no blue title bar there, or control box(standard). So my question i suppose, is: "How do you do it?"

    Cheers,

I heard you do it will the shell, I think shelling is the term, I'm not sure though.

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Apocolypse2005
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Apocolypse2005, I'm a programmer - of sorts.

Well, shelling, as I understand it, is launching a separate app, as was done with VB6’s Shell statement.

I can kind of see the idea in my mind... All apps are windows, and those windows own a section of the screen. The operating system has a lot of control over that rectangle... The Part I don’t know, is how to tell the OS what it is that you want.

As I’m typing this, I’m seeming to remember that you can specify the height of the title bar. If you set it to 0, then the whole window is client area, and you can paint onto it whatever you cna imagine.

You didn’t ask for this advice, but here it is anyway: It is really easy to make an interface that is really amusing the 1st 10 times you see, it, after which you can't wait to get rid of it. Use a conservative approach as you redesign the look and feel...

At first glance I thought you were asking to change the look and feel of Visual Studio but after rereading your post and then Brian's, what you are really asking is "How can I reskin my form to be more eye appealing"...I think anyway.

This isn't exactly the easiest thing to explain because it can get very involved since it involves dipping in the GDI+ classes. I would suggest checking out Google: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...+Form+Skinning

Lastly, heed Brian's advice. Eye Candy is normally good for an intital "WOW" factor but if the UI is garbage and hard to use it won't matter how much "WOW" you have packed into the app.

hth.
-Doug



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