Can you create a window (not guiwindow) without a border?

Brainstorm · Post by **Brainstorm** » Sun May 27, 2007 9:30 am

Is it posible to create a window (not guiwindow) without a windowborder?

I have searched the documentation and I found nothing. I have also tried to search windows.h to find a function that hides the border (to which you can pass the HWND of the window (driver->GetExposedVideoData().HWnd)). But I didn't find anything. Do you know how this can be done? (at least working on windows)

Robert Y. · Post by **Robert Y.** » Sun May 27, 2007 12:00 pm

Have a look at the SetWindowLong function of the Win32 SDK.

vi-wer · Post by **vi-wer** » Sun May 27, 2007 12:10 pm

SetWindowLong( hWnd, GWL_STYLE, WS_VISIBLE|WS_POPUP) should remove the border ( an additional style flag and/or UpdateWindow(hWnd) could be necessary to show the window).

Brainstorm · Post by **Brainstorm** » Sun May 27, 2007 1:07 pm

Thanks!
testing now...

Edit: it works!
Edit2: But the window is always as big as I want it to be + the size of the border which is painted over with beginScene(). I can't paint on the area that was supposed to be border with any drawing function except the beginScene() function. And it responds to click events in the whole window. I'll upload a screenshot on request.
Edit3: Fixed it... I resized the window with SetWindowPos function.