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I want window with an image background and no caption/border
with a single a text control, (or a place to show text), that is centered x & y,
and I want to specify window width & height

Standard (as shown) provides a window with coltrol centered as desired.

But if I specify picture control first (as a pseudo background) or if I specify window size
the text control is no longer centered in either direction.

Can I do this w/o extensive calculations to place the control ? Can anyone correct my code ?

Thanks in advance

Leef_me

I think you've misunderstood what "center" does: It centers the contents of the text control within the control itself; it doesn't center the control within the GUI.

Anyway, here's my solution - it does require calculations, but they're really not that extensive

Nice What's 0x201? Apart from WM_LBUTTONDOWN

0x201 = 0x1 + 0x200

0x1 = SS_CENTER (horizontal)
0x200 = SS_CENTERIMAGE (vertical)

Thanks jaco

I knew that, sorry I wasn't clear. The centering of the control within the window is because some default setting when there are no other controls to the left/right. I like your coding, but SKAN's is what I was hoping for. BTW, thanks for asking about 0x201.

@ SKAN thanks again, that's what I couldn't think to do (styles are somewhat new to me)

@jaco0646 thanks for posting the definitions.
It's interesting they are both called 'center' but one is vertical the other horizontal.
It's also interesting that one is catagorized for Text the other for Picture.

If you inspect Text and Picture control with a AU3 spy, you can see that the class name is Static for both.. but I never knew when I discovered it with Brute Force method.