I have a window where I'm running out of real estate. In the very upper right corner there is a bitmap, and what would help a lot was if I could have that bitmap even higher, on top of the menu bar. That end of the menu bar is unused anyway.

I made a naive attempt with GDI and a negative Y, but without any success. What I draw gets clipped. (Actually I did my test with text, but feel certain the result would be the same with images.)

Is it at all possible to achieve what I want?

Can I avoid clipping when I use GDI?

Can I draw on something else than the window client area?

Can I make the menu bar shorter???

Or must I use a separate window floating on top of the original form?

- Oystein -

Oy-

How about putting the image in a modeless dialog box that you position programmatically?

Or a dialog box that appears upon request from a user action?

Mike

Mike,

That's what I meant with my last suggestion/question.

I've never done something like that before. But I guess it isn't too difficult.

My window is an MDI form showing many different child windows - one at a time. The image in the upper right corner is on the frame. It's just with two of these child windows there's a problem. For these two I need a slightly larger client area, one that would overlap the frame image.

I'll see if I can find a different solution. I might perhaps change the client area dynamically and sacrifice the frame image when the problematic child windows are open.

But I'd still like to hear if there are other solutions.

- Oystein -

Mike,

When I said "that's what I meant" I was referring to your first suggestion.

Your second suggestion is not an option.

- Oystein -

Oystein,

Perhaps the only other solution you have is to subclass the form's window procedure with a DLL and paint the image on the menu yourself. That's how Windows puts all those nice little icons on the menus in anycase.

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