Titlebar minimize/maximize buttons

General JUCE discussion
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Hello,

I just started messing around with juce – very nice!

I got a question, though.

I can see that native window decorations are not implemented – that is fine. But, I would like to add a minimize and maximize button to the DialogWindow class (it only appears to implement a close window button).

Any tips on the best way to go about doing this? I searched the forums for an answer and didnt find anything – I hope that this question hasn’t been asked a ba-zillion times =)

Would it be easier for me to define my own window class by subclassing Component?

Thanks!

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Ok,

I just did a search for “minimize” and “maximize” and well, I feel kinda stupid now (there was some discussion of min/max buttons, but at least it wasnt asked a ba-zillion times)

So, feel free to ignore this post, unless anyone feels there is something I should know.

Sorry!

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hiya :smiley: welcome to the world of JUCE!

glad you got it sorted. it usually turns out to be something simple, no matter what it is! :hihi:

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After a little bit of hacking I managed to come up with some simple working min/max/close buttons.

http://www.puresimplicity.net/~ldb/hacks/juce/mainwindow.png

It’s basically ripped straight from DialogWindow (it’s just a ResizableWindow and ButtonListener). The buttons are drawn in MainWindow::updateTitleBarButtons().

It’s totally inflexible. It ignores look and feel. It’s just a hack. But, it’s sorta cool – You can either use it directly or subclass it.

Make MainWindow::updateTitleBarButtons() virtual and you can override it in a subclass to draw your min/max/close buttons however you want.

Here is a visual c++ project with a little demo (the source is MainWindow.cpp and MainWindow.h)

http://www.puresimplicity.net/~ldb/hacks/juce/JuceMainWindow.zip