"Resizable" GUI indicator?

[JBensimon]

Anybody know whether the cool little "resizable" indicator in the lower right-hand corner of some Windows dialogs is the result of an available window Style/ExStyle, or can it only be achieved in an AutoHotkey GUI by explicitly adding (and managing the position of) an image control?

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Thanks.

[swagfag]

WS_SIZEBOX

[mikeyww]

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Gui, +Resize
Gui, Font, s10
Gui, Add, Text, w230, Test
Gui, Add, StatusBar
Gui, Show

[JBensimon]

Good show, Mikey! Didn't realize the thingy is automatic in a status bar (only if the GUI is in fact resizable).

Now I'll try to make it less obvious that there's an empty status bar present.

Thanks!

JB

[toralf]

When you find a solution, please post. As I’m interested too.

[JBensimon]

@toralf: Mikey's suggestion (to add a status bar control to the GUI) works perfectly, assuming you can find a use for a status bar or don't mind having a blank status bar separated from the rest of your GUI dialog by a horizontal line. I couldn't find a way to get rid of that separator line (there aren't really any style options documented by Microsoft for status bar controls), so I wound up going for my current purposes with my original thought of just adding a little (8x8) picture control at the bottom right corner of the dialog and moving it as necessary in the dialog's resize routine. Note that the behavior with a picture isn't the same as with a status bar in that the picture itself is not what Microsoft calls a "sizing grip", i.e. you can't click and hold the picture itself to resize the window, you have to go a little further down to grab the edges -- the picture in this case is purely intended to make the user aware that the dialog is resizable.

Now, I do notice that the little "sizing grip" (the dot pattern) also appears in standard File Open/Save dialogs, but not as part of a status bar, and strangely enough Window Spy reports it as a ScrollBar control, so I may look in that direction at some point. Might be some special style available for scrollbars that only shows the resizing block and no actual scrollbar.

Jacques.

[mikeyww]

If needed, you could write a script that does resize when a click on the picture is held. It could be something like, get the mouse position, start a timer, recheck mouse position, resize the window, and stop the timer when the button is released.

[JBensimon]

Ha, not worth the effort to avoid having to move the mouse an extra millimeter!