How to forbid window title bar to be draged?

[qiubin2006]

If a top level vi has the window title bar,how to forbid user to drag the title bar to change window's position?

P.S. vi's property "Allow user to resize window" has been forbidden.

[GerdW]

Hi qiubin,

you can pin the window by (constantly) writing to the window bounds property.
Or you can catch all mouse down/ mouse move events to cancel them out when the user wants to drag the window...

[chrisger]

hi there

the mouse up/down events only work for the front panel area, but not for the window (title and frame). so i would write the windows origin constantly to a property node every some 10ms like GerdW suggested.

[ThSa]

Unfortunately, the LabVIEW event structure does not provide an event like "Panel Move" or a similiar stuff.
I think, you have two different options:
a) Either use the event structure -> timeout case to set (if necessary) every Xms with the invoke method "Front Panel.Runtime Position.Custom" the position of the VI.
b) Probably you find an appropriate function in the attached zip file

Thanks,
ThSa

[falkpl]

Why not just hide the title bar then the usre can not move the window (except from the task bar but you can hide this too).  I write many industrial apps where I have no title bar size the windon to full screen and hide the task bar.  I also filer the keqboard commands and make the window modal.  This will appear to be an embedded application with little options to get back to the window environment once started.

Paul

[Wiebe@CARYA]

You can also kill the explorer.exe process. It's a bit of a hack, but it removes the task bar, and desktop.


Regards,


Wiebe.

[chrisger]

users who know how to do that can restat the explorer and the taskbar with the task manager ("CTL + ALT + DEL") and then Menu option "new task" -> "explorer.exe".

[Wiebe@CARYA]

That's true.

[smercurio_fc]

You can try to do this with the Windows API by deleting the "Move" menu item from the window's System menu. See attached (LabVIEW 8.20).

[M.athieu.]

How to revert the action with the dll ? I found the InsertMenu option with some tries but without success ...