Help with nonclient Windows 95 frame

[Bill Medland]

Bill Medland <medbi01 at accpac.com> wrote in article
<01c1058a$50e51260$6f0c10ac at medbi01>...
> I'd appreciate some advice here before I mess things up for everyone
else.
> 
> In the longer term I am fixing a border issue with the edit control, but
> before doing so I am fixing up the nonclient frame drawing code (i.e.
> NC_DoNCPaint95).
> 
> The code contains quite a bit of calculation based upon the system
metrics.
>  The code seems to reflect the Windows documentation.  However it should
> come as no surprise that there are disagreements between that
documentation
> and what I see on my Win95 computer!  For example a frame with
WS_THICKEDGE
> but no WS_BORDER nor WS_DLGFRAME nor WS_EX_DLGMODALFRAME on my computer
is
> only 3 pixels wide, not 4 (although one of those pixels is the
COLOR_WINDOW
> associated with the WS_THICKEDGE)
> 
> Is there a way to adjust the size of the borders on the Win95 to be able
to
> see what affects what?
> 
> Bill
> 
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yes. Control Panel->Display->Appearance->Item and mess about
(e.g. adjusting ActiveWindowBorder adjusts the BorderWidth setting in the
WindowMetrics section of the Registry)