RE: Win Mob 2003 dialogs always maximised...

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From: Romu (Romu_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 06:28:54 -0700

You can play with thr form properties to change that behaviour (Border to Non, ControlBox to false...) but you'll get a popup without title bar and no way to move it with the stylus.

Here :
http://www.codeppc.com/dotnet/fenetreflottante/fenetreflottante.htm

you'll find a class to implement floating window, the article is in French but I think you can easily understand the code.

"Daniel Bass" wrote:

> I'm trying to display a progress bar, on a little modal dialog.
>
> After creating a little dialog, I call it with Show() and update it with new
> progress bar values.
>
> the problem is it always appears maximised... I changed the dialog location
> and size, with the windows state to normal, but it's still maximised. I've
> also tried changing the border style sizeable and it's the same result.
>
> This should be an easy thing to do? Surely?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dan.
>
>
>

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