Custom window bar

[youngroger]

Hello,

I would like to customize my GUI as many other programs do aswell. By customizing the bar on top of the window and the close / minimize button etc. I tried google, but I think i'm searching with the wrong queries. Anyway, on-topic again, can anybody provide me with some basic informations (or a link) on customizing a GUI?

Thanks in advance..

[youngroger]

Maybe Qt or wxWidgets would fix the job but I would like to do it by using the Windows API directly... how is this possible?

[Computergeek01]

Is this what you are looking for?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686331(v=VS.85).aspx

I believe dwFillAttribute is the part you are looking for

From msdn:

If dwFlags specifies STARTF_USEFILLATTRIBUTE, this member is the initial text and background colors if a new console window is created in a console application. Otherwise, this member is ignored. 

This value can be any combination of the following values: FOREGROUND_BLUE, FOREGROUND_GREEN, FOREGROUND_RED, FOREGROUND_INTENSITY, BACKGROUND_BLUE, BACKGROUND_GREEN, BACKGROUND_RED, and BACKGROUND_INTENSITY. For example, the following combination of values produces red text on a white background:

FOREGROUND_RED| BACKGROUND_RED| BACKGROUND_GREEN| BACKGROUND_BLUE

[Vexer]

I think he is talking about a completely custom GUI. Are you looking for something like this?

http://img372.imageshack.us/i/spywaredoctor1kg8.png/

[buyong]

you can try BCGCBPro