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I have run into a problem with the title bar on skinned child windows in an MDI program. 



The child class is declared as:



class CChildMyFrame : public CExtNCW < CMDIChildWnd >



In some situations, I need to turn off the title bar to the child windows, and other times I need it turned on.  I was able to turn off everything on the bar including the title, but I couldn’t get it to go away.  According to everything I found, turning off WS_CAPTION turns off the bar.



I set up an experimental Prof-UIS program and found that I could shut off the bar with ModifyStyle when the chile frame was not declared with CExtNCW.  When the CExtNCW was added, the test program had the same behavior I saw in my application. 



There appears to be something in CExtNCW that needs to be called to turn off the title bar.



Examining the Prof-UIS code, it looks like the following should work to dynamically shut off the title bar:



    CWnd * pWndFrameImpl = (CWnd *)NcFrameImpl_GetFrameWindow();

    pWndFrameImpl->ModifyStyle(WS_CAPTION, 0, SWP_FRAMECHANGED);

   

But it doesn’t do anything visible.



How do I shut off the title bar for MDI child frames skinned with CExtNCW?



Thanks,

Bill

Seems that CExtNCW problems are more than one ;).

Overwrite “NcFrameImpl_IsSupported” in “CChildMyFrame” like this:

bool CChildMyFrame::NcFrameImpl_IsSupported() const
{
if (!__super::NcFrameImpl_IsSupported())
return false;

if ((GetStyle()&WS_CAPTION) == 0);
return false;

return true;
}

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We will look at this in the next couple of days.

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