Questions tagged [windowless]
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Windowless Controls
The MSDN page for the ShowWithoutActivation method - here - on a Form state that ToolStripItems are windowless.
What does it mean for a control to be windowless? What purpose do they serve? How can I make my own Windowless controls?

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Is it possible to create a windowless mfc c++ app that would consist of transparent browser component?
Is it possible to create a windowless mfc c++ app (that would run on xp) that would consist of transparent browser component (with background by default transparent) and a button (that wold for example close that app)?

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Flash 11 wmode transparent no longer working for windowless component
We have a standalone product (not browser based) that uses Flash for some of its gui. We let flash render to a windowless control then used that bitmap as a 3D texture where it is then displayed by directx
we have traditionally taken advantage of…

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Can you create a mathbuildup using IDWRITE?
Is there already a built-in mechanism or method for creating a mathbuild using only the IDWRITE interfaces that would produce a similar type of math buildup compared to using an RTF window with the OLE/ITextRange2/ITextFont2 interfaces?

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How to display windowless XPS document in a WPF component?
I am currently using DocumentViewer to display an XPS document. It works fine, shows the XPS document in a window, with all the controls: Find on the bottom and Print, Zoom in/out & Page width/height etc on the top.
Is it possible to show just the…

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Display a windowless Forms PictureBox, always on top
How can I write an windows forms app that displays (multiple) windowless picture boxes, that are always shown 'on top' i.e. always visible?
The idea is for the app to be run at the same time as main application so that the picture boxes 'appear' as…

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GPF after deleting windowless ActiveX control from host application
Inherited a MFC based application that hosts both windowed and windowless ActiveX controls. In this application the user can design SCADA pages on which he/she is able to create and delete these AX controls dynamically. The controls are mostly…

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Wakanda Enterprise Studio launches as a background process
Windows 10 14393.105
16GB RAM
64bit OS
Wakanda Ent Studio 11.197492 - fresh install
All other Wakanda's uninstalled
Norton 360 - auto protect - off
When I launch Wak Ent Studio, it loads and runs as a background process, and no window displays.
It…

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WPF WindowLess MessageBox
I'm attempting to convert a very small C# console application to WPF application. It takes in some parameters, does some work, and may bring up a MessageBox.
I'm moving it from a console app to WPF because it should run invisible, unless it has an…

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How to open a windowless chrome incognito window from a Chrome extension?
I've been diving 2 days now about how to open a Windowless (invisible, hidden) chrome incognito window from a chrome extension, it seems that chrome api doesn't allow it!!
i want to avoid using tools as Selenium RC.
Any idea?

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Web browser with no title / windows bars
I've been looking into this for awhile now as I have created a client I would love to be able to run in a separate window (In a similar design to the Blizzard launcher or the old Ijji reactor). I was wondering if this was possible. Last week I…

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Can a plugin(for safari on mac) be made windowed or windowless programmatically?
We are making a plugin for safari browser on mac.
After browsing over internet, i found that generally plugins on mac are windowless but i want a windowed plugin. Even in function NPP_SetWindow i tried to print the value of variable type(which is of…

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Chrome plugin window image inverted
We are working on a video player plugin with FireBreath. It has a windowless mode, and in Chrome on Windows it produces a very strange effect.
Whenever we try to paint in the hdc the pixels appear either in the right colour or inverted, depending…

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How to change or hide cursor?
Hi I am developing a windowless NPAPI plugin. I am drawing the images on the plugin . Now my problem is change my cursor in windowless plugin.Please can one help me.

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Wait for lengthy operation without browser hang in NPAPI windowless plugin
I've written a windowless NPAPI plugin, and I am going to perform some long lasting operation (e.g.send a http post request with image data) in a plugin function called by web browser JavaScript. Web browser must wait for plugin's worker thread to…

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