Hide Maximize/Minimze buttons?

Question

Is there a way to hide the max/min buttons for the window?  I know you can use ToolWindow, but I'm having some problems using that style (it gets lost in the ALT-TAB menu) so I need a different way.  And I don't really want to rewrite the window chrome or redraw the borders if I don't have to.

Answer 1

Kofoed,
If you also don't want to resize the window, a  ResizeMode="NoResize" will do it. It will remove them, but then, no resizing either.

Hope this helps.

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noorbakhsh

Answer 2

Hi,

put this line of code after InitializeComponent

this

.WindowStyle = WindowStyle.None;


hope solve ur problem

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Harshad..... Always 4 U

Answer 3

Hi,

put this line of code after InitializeComponent()


this.WindowStyle = WindowStyle.None;


Hope Solve ur Problem............

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Harshad..... Always 4 U

Answer 4

I don't understand why *all* resizing is disabled just because the min/max buttons are removed from the titlebar...

Answer 5

Hi Kofoed,

You can remove the WS_MAXIMIZEBOX and WS_MINIMIZEBOX from the window style via P/Invoke.

[DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
        static extern int GetWindowLong(IntPtr hWnd, int nIndex);

        [DllImport("user32.dll")]
        static extern int SetWindowLong(IntPtr hWnd, int nIndex, int dwNewLong);

        private const int GWL_STYLE = -16;
        private const int WS_MINIMIZEBOX = 0x20000;
        private const int WS_MAXIMIZEBOX = 0x10000;

        void Window5_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            IntPtr hwnd = new WindowInteropHelper(this).Handle;

            long windowLong = GetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_STYLE);

            windowLong = windowLong &~ WS_MAXIMIZEBOX;
            windowLong = windowLong &~ WS_MINIMIZEBOX;

            SetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_STYLE, (int)windowLong);
        }

Best Regards,
Zhi-Xin

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