[BUG] When clicking the desktop button, MMF2-made app doesn't minimise

[Ryan]

Just want to bring attention to this widespead bug that causes applications to not minimise correctly when the 'heading' option is disabled.

[LB]

I don't see how this is a bug? If it is, it's a bug in Windows itself, because it happens to other applications with no header.

[Ryan]

I don't think it happens to other applications with no header... I tested with Winamp and iTunes which don't use the traditional windows header and they minimise properly. If they've managed to code around the bug then Clickteam can too.

[LB]

I tested with Winamp and iTunes which don't use the traditional windows header and they minimise properly.

There's a difference between using the Windows API to remove the window header and using the Windows API to customize the window header. Using Sphax Kernel Object I can actually remove the headers from those programs, then minimizing them doesn't work for me.

[Ryan]

I see... is any extension in MMF2 that can customise the header? It seems like a bit flimsy to use a method of removing the header that isn't properly supported by Windows.

[LB]

Well removing the header is meant to be used in conjunction with windows that cannot be minimized

As for extensions to customize the title bar, I don' think there are any. Each version of Windows has a different API with different abilities and it depends on the user's theme as well. It would be quite a feat to make such an extension but I would expect that it would be best used in a similar manner to Sphax' Kernel object.

Have you considered workarounds like using the Sphax Kernel object to add a title bar when the app is minimized and remove it when it is restored?