A while ago, I thought it would be neat if you could have an object that showed the title of the current open window, and also had the resizing and close buttons on it. I think I asked in the forums, and it was suggested it couldn't be done, so I emailed support. The gist of the reply was as follows:

"...this is not supported by DesktopX natively, but the ability to create and utilize COM objects (using Set obj = CreateObject(...)) gives you a LOT of flexibility.

Closing, Resizing and Maximizing a window may be possible, but Rolling up and down windows is not something built in to Windows.

You will probably want to search for source code to applications like spy++. This allows you to get a lot of information about applications that are currently running. Using this information, it is possible to interact with those applications."

On the plus side, this gave me hope that it could be done, but on the down side, I have NO idea how to go about something like that, and so the idea fell by the wayside - it wasn't that important to me.

Recently however, the idea struck me to create a windows skin with SkinStudio that allows for maximum screen real estate - including NO titlebar. Instead, I would create a desktopX object that would autohide along the top edge of the screen, and would show the window title as well as the control buttons. I of course remembered that email from long aog, and so, with a practical goal in mind, thought I'd ask for advice, pointers, help etc, here on the forums. I'm no master coder by any means, but if anyone could help me find the 'spy++' source code or similar, I'm generally quite good atpicking things up, and would be happy to play with it on my own.

Thanks.