Can someone tell me how to create tabs in the title bar area of a C# Winforms application? I'm looking for something similar to how Google Chrome looks. Each tab in Chrome is docked in the title bar of the main application window.
Try setting FormBorderStyle of your form to None. I think if you look around there are some articles on how to build a UI like this where you can still have the drag functionality you'd lose by hiding the title bar. Then you could build up the title bar area the way you wanted it to work.
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In WPF, we can set WindowStyle to None to create a "borderless" window.
But, I found that UWP contains pages only.
Is there any way to have borderless windows in UWP?
It's not possible to do the same, however you could make your app go fullscreen or expand its content into title bar so you'll get more place for the content. Another similar thing may be using Picture In Picture mode, but these windows are always above others AFAIK.
Read more about fullscreen in UWP for example here, about expanding the content into title bar here and about the PIP mode here.
You can see:CompactOverlay mode – aka Picture-in-Picture – Universal Windows App Model
The first is check whether it can support.
ApplicationView.GetForCurrentView().IsViewModeSupported(ApplicationViewMode.CompactOverlay)
And then you can enter it.
bool modeSwitched = await ApplicationView.GetForCurrentView().TryEnterViewModeAsync(ApplicationViewMode.CompactOverlay);
The code in github:https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples/tree/master/Samples/MultipleViews
I'm planning the development of a fairly simple app and have little experience with UWP, some with Winforms. I'd like to make it so that the user can dock the app (similar to the taskbar, but the size of a browser tab) to the edge of the screen and allow it to slide in/out on click or hover. Searches have turned up nothing (maybe I'm not using the right terms) and I've yet to see this functionality on a Windows 10 app.
I'm thinking that I could just force the window to be offscreen or have a 0 width. But I'm not certain how to make a tab appear when that happens. Would I make a second window that is the tab?
All constructive thoughts and ideas are welcome.
I'm trying to create a windows form app that "owns" the top area of a screen. Think of it as just a rectangular form width = screen size and height = 20px or so. The app would always be on top and would be borderless (i.e. FormBorderStyle=none). The questionable part, for example, if a user maximizes a window like chrome or some other application, it should treat the bottom of this windows form app as the top of the screen. This way since the form app is always on top, it doesn't cover up any of the maximized application's window.
Any clues on how to do this.. can it be done with windows forms? The only questionable part is how to "own" a portion of the screen.
Let me know if clarification is needed. Thanks in advanced.
What you need is to set the Screen.WorkingArea which is readonly you should use PInvoke to achieve this you can find your answer in this thread
To get the working area of the display you can use Screen.WorkingArea property
I am currently working on an application for Windows Phone 7+ and am lost as to how to create a dynamic menu bar at the bottom of my application. When the user clicks on the bar at the bottom, it should act exactly like the Application Bar by sliding about halfway up the screen. I have tried multiple approaches and can't seem to replicate the behavior of the Application Bar.
Here is a screenshot of the custom object in question: http://i.imgur.com/1If0pFt.jpg
Again, when any one of the icons at the bottom is pressed, I want the entire bar to slide up as if the "..." on the Application Bar was pressed. Any feedback is welcome.
Thank you,
TiDe
Have you tried PhoneFlipMenu?
Maybe this is something that you need?
I see that many applications do not have a title bar, but still have the window controls in the upper right corner. These are also styled differently than the normal windows form controls. Is it possible to achieve this effect in WPF?
Here are some examples:
Zune Desktop software:
http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii356/elpedrogrande/btns2.gif
Photoshop:
http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii356/elpedrogrande/btns3.gif
GoTo Assist:
http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii356/elpedrogrande/btns1.gif
They do this by setting the window style bits so it is created without a title bar. And then draw their own, making it look like a custom one. Which is the main reason that all these programs have caption glyphs that are not identical.
You'd accomplish the same in WPF by setting the WindowStyle to None. And a whole bunch of code to get back the behavior that Windows implements automatically with the title bar. Google "WM_NCHITTEST" to find out more.