Does setting WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE actually do anything?

Rob

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Feb 16, 2004, 1:31:01 PM2/16/04

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Does anyone know what the WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE extended style does? I have
tried every combination of styles and extended styles (literally) and this
one steadfastly refuses to have any effect. I am trying to create a user
control with a slightly raised edge and would rather change the window style
than draw it myself. I have seached google and MSDN but cannot find out how
to get this style to work. Anyone out there have any success with this
style?

Thanks
Robert

Tom Esh

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Feb 16, 2004, 2:42:41 PM2/16/04

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I'm not sure what WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE does either, ...except that it's
obviously not helpful here.<g>
WS_DLGFRAME, WS_EX_DLGMODALFRAME, or WS_THICKFRAME would give you a
~normal~ raised edge (like a form's). However there is no style that
produces a ~slightly~ raised edge (i.e. the opposite of
WS_EX_STATICEDGE). The most help the Api would be for that would be
the DrawEdge function.
Ex (where the scalemode is Pixels):

Dim R As RECT

R.Right = UserControl.ScaleWidth
R.Bottom = UserControl.ScaleHeight
DrawEdge UserControl.hdc, R, BDR_RAISEDINNER, BF_RECT

-Tom
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Randy Birch

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Feb 16, 2004, 11:38:43 PM2/16/04

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Well, the msdn says:

This article was previously published under Q136311
SUMMARY
The WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE style is new to Windows 95. The style specifies that a
window has a border with a raised edge. If the WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE style is
used on a window that doesn't have either the WS_THICKFRAME or WS_DLGFRAME
style, the WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE style has no effect. This is because the
WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE style modifies the window's frame. Therefore, if no frame
is specified, then the window does not receive the 3-D effect.

This problem typically occurs when you are trying to give a raised edge to a
control. Because controls by default have no frame, only a border, the
WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE style is ignored. To work around the problem, add the
WS_DLGFRAME style to the control.

In another section, it states:

Windows 95/98/Me automatically adds and removes the WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE style
for windows in all applications. For a version 3.x application, Windows
95/98/Me adds the WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE style to a window if, in version 3.1, the
window would have a dialog border or a sizable border. Windows 95/98/Me
removes the WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE style if the window's style changes so that it
would no longer have a dialog border or sizable border in version 3.1.
Windows 95/98/Me uses similar criteria for adding and removing the
WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE style for a version 4.0 or later application, except that
any window that has a title bar receives the WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE style,
regardless of the window's other border styles.

WS_EX_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW
Combines the WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE and WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE styles.

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Tom Esh

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Feb 17, 2004, 10:07:00 AM2/17/04

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<g>
I think you left out the paragraph that begins "...except when a full
moon rises before sunset in which case..."

Randy Birch

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Feb 17, 2004, 10:29:33 PM2/17/04

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I didn't want to confuse the issue. <g>

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