all of us have seen those nice shaped windows that are not plain rectangular but polygon shaped. i was wondering how to do those... there doesn''t seem to be an api function, so do you need a special library for that? thanks ridcully

To do this you need to create a region and then call setregion on the window you want to change the shape of.

Torval

umm, perhaps i should first have looked into the documentation.
the function i was searching is SetWindowRgn.
doh, there really was an api function...

Make sure you follow the warnings closely... if the variable defining your region is not a global or class member variable that stays resident, you could wind up with some serious problems.

-fel

i hate those wonky shaped windows...they just slow down shit...dragging em about takes ages and they look...wrong!

felisandria: hmm, it is not a global variable in my app. but it works and looks really neat
what problems do you mean? well, i''ll prolly make it global for windows'' sake.

Ridcully