Frame sytle on windows Topic is solved

[Lamego]

Hello,
I am trying to create a fixed size frame showing only the close button.

The following works fine on Linux wxGTK :

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frmLogin::frmLogin(const wxString& title, const wxPoint& pos, const wxSize& size)
  : wxFrame(NULL, wxID_ANY, title, pos, size wxSYSTEM_MENU | wxCLOSE_BOX )

However on Windows XP the window doesn't get a system menu (no close button), also I am unable to move the window and it shows the symbol on the corner as if would be resizable (but it doesn't resize).

Any ideas ?

[T-Rex]

wxSYSTEM_MENU | wxCLOSE_BOX | wxCAPTION

[leio]

You should use the wxDEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE flag always. If you need something of it not included (such as the wxMINIMIZE_BOX flag), you can do bitwise operations on it.
For example, the style argument could be:
wxDEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE & ~(wxMINIMIZE_BOX | wxMAXIMIZE_BOX) | wxSTAY_ON_TOP

This would give the default frame style without the minimize and maximize boxes (disregarding any kind of usability concerns here for the sake of example), together with the wxSTAY_ON_TOP style.

[Lamego]

Adding the the wxCAPTION did the trick, there should be some warning on the documentation about the wxSYSTEM_MENU not working on Windows or that it depends on wxCAPTION beeing also present on the flags.

About the wxDEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE I don't agree, what benefits do I get from using the default style, is it a plataform specific default? One should be able to give a custom style with the features we want for our frame, in my opinion thats the purpose of styles, to define our own style not to just change the default style.
But yes it would also resolve my problem because it would include the wxCAPTION option.

[leio]

Yes, it is a platform specific default.
Also, new styles might be added, that before were just on by default - then you might loose it.
This happened with wxCLOSE_BOX in 2.4 -> 2.6 - applications that didn't use the wxDEFAULT_FRAME/DIALOG_STYLE just happened to loose the close box, because it always existed on 2.4, but was made possible to be omitted with 2.6. If they had used the wxDEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE concept, they wouldn't have had problems.

[Lamego]

Ok, if it's plataform specific it makes sense to use it.
Thanks for the info.