Locking A Form

[ZeroEffect]

Here is what I am trying to accompilish. I want to give the use the option to Lock the form on the screen so no one can move the form. I see there is a lock option when you view the form properties but it doesn't seem to be accessible by code. I have tried locking the position by the Move event on the form. This works to a point, you are still able to move and you see it snap into place. This is not visually pleasing. Does anyone have an idea on how to make this work.

Thanks

ZeroEffect

 

[SonicBoomAu]

Why not change the form to a fixed dialog and set topmost to true

Me.FormBorderStyle = Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.FixedDialog
me.Topmost = true

Hope this helps

 

[ZeroEffect]

Why not change the form to a fixed dialog and set topmost to true

Me.FormBorderStyle = Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.FixedDialog
me.Topmost = true

Hope this helps

Thats not a bad idea, but I'm looking more twards making the form non-movable. I might add your suggestion too.

Thanks for the idea.

ZeroEffect

 

[PlausiblyDamp]

You could always try handling the Move event and just reseting the position back, not sure how that would look though.

If it doesn't look too good the nyou might need to handle the WM_MOVE or similar messages yourself and just ignore them.

 

[ZeroEffect]

Handling the Move event Looks very bad. How would I go about Handleing the WM_Move Messages?

thanks

ZeroEffect

 

[Arch4ngel]

That lead you back to linking your code to Microsoft non-managed DLL.

You might get information on how to do it through:
http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/ClickThroughWindows.asp?df=100&forumid=262268&exp=0&select=1356584
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ws/windowreference/windowmessages/wm_move.asp

But never did it personally. You might want to take a look at WM_Moving too.

Here you go.

 

[ZeroEffect]

Very interesting, I'll have to play with those ideas this comming week.

Thanks for the info.

ZeroEffcet