Does anyone know what triggers the window open animation?  It's that
expanding rectangle the you see right before a form is made visible.
It seems that if a form does not have a parent or owner specified, it
will appear.  Otherwise, it doesn't.  The same thing occurs for the
window closing animation.

I'm guessing there's some message that is sent to the parent control
if one exists, and otherwise windows handles it like it does any other
window.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

On Jul 20, 7:01 pm, "Jeffrey.M.New...@gmail.com"
 wrote:

> Does anyone know what triggers the window open animation?  It's that
> expanding rectangle the you see right before a form is made visible.
> It seems that if a form does not have a parent or owner specified, it
> will appear.  Otherwise, it doesn't.  The same thing occurs for the
> window closing animation.
>
> I'm guessing there's some message that is sent to the parent control
> if one exists, and otherwise windows handles it like it does any other
> window.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.


I'm thinking maybe this is device specific behavior, so I figured I'd
clarify that I am seeing this on Win CE 4.2, running on a pocket PC.
Any information would be a big help.

What triggers it is a the creation of a new window (top-level), as you 
surmised?  What's the real question?  You must want to know for some reason? 
Turn it off?  Set the extended window style to include WS_EX_NOANIMATION...

Paul T.

 wrote in message 
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> On Jul 20, 7:01 pm, "Jeffrey.M.New...@gmail.com"
>  wrote:
>> Does anyone know what triggers the window open animation?  It's that
>> expanding rectangle the you see right before a form is made visible.
>> It seems that if a form does not have a parent or owner specified, it
>> will appear.  Otherwise, it doesn't.  The same thing occurs for the
>> window closing animation.
>>
>> I'm guessing there's some message that is sent to the parent control
>> if one exists, and otherwise windows handles it like it does any other
>> window.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I'm thinking maybe this is device specific behavior, so I figured I'd
> clarify that I am seeing this on Win CE 4.2, running on a pocket PC.
> Any information would be a big help.
> 

On Jul 24, 2:42 pm, "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT
no instrument no spam DOT com> wrote:

> What triggers it is a the creation of a new window (top-level), as you
> surmised?  What's the real question?  You must want to know for some reason?
> Turn it off?  Set the extended window style to include WS_EX_NOANIMATION...
>
> Paul T.
>
>  wrote in message
>
> news:1185301807.447376.168380@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On Jul 20, 7:01 pm, "Jeffrey.M.New...@gmail.com"
> >  wrote:
> >> Does anyone know what triggers the window open animation?  It's that
> >> expanding rectangle the you see right before a form is made visible.
> >> It seems that if a form does not have a parent or owner specified, it
> >> will appear.  Otherwise, it doesn't.  The same thing occurs for the
> >> window closing animation.
>
> >> I'm guessing there's some message that is sent to the parent control
> >> if one exists, and otherwise windows handles it like it does any other
> >> window.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> > I'm thinking maybe this is device specific behavior, so I figured I'd
> > clarify that I am seeing this on Win CE 4.2, running on a pocket PC.
> > Any information would be a big help.


Sorry, I should have been more specific - I'm looking for the
opposite.  I want a window which is both a child window, and opens /
closes with the exploding / imploding rectangles.  After the
WS_EX_NOANIMATION tip, I looked to see if the window has that property
set before it is shown, but it does not.  (It's extended style is 0).

You'll have to do the animation yourself, maybe in WM_CREATE or the 
constructor for the form.  The system code completely ignores any child 
window when doing the animation.

Paul T.

"Jeff Newman"  wrote in message 
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> On Jul 24, 2:42 pm, "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT
> no instrument no spam DOT com> wrote:
>> What triggers it is a the creation of a new window (top-level), as you
>> surmised?  What's the real question?  You must want to know for some 
>> reason?
>> Turn it off?  Set the extended window style to include 
>> WS_EX_NOANIMATION...
>>
>> Paul T.
>>
>>  wrote in message
>>
>> news:1185301807.447376.168380@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> > On Jul 20, 7:01 pm, "Jeffrey.M.New...@gmail.com"
>> >  wrote:
>> >> Does anyone know what triggers the window open animation?  It's that
>> >> expanding rectangle the you see right before a form is made visible.
>> >> It seems that if a form does not have a parent or owner specified, it
>> >> will appear.  Otherwise, it doesn't.  The same thing occurs for the
>> >> window closing animation.
>>
>> >> I'm guessing there's some message that is sent to the parent control
>> >> if one exists, and otherwise windows handles it like it does any other
>> >> window.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> > I'm thinking maybe this is device specific behavior, so I figured I'd
>> > clarify that I am seeing this on Win CE 4.2, running on a pocket PC.
>> > Any information would be a big help.
>
> Sorry, I should have been more specific - I'm looking for the
> opposite.  I want a window which is both a child window, and opens /
> closes with the exploding / imploding rectangles.  After the
> WS_EX_NOANIMATION tip, I looked to see if the window has that property
> set before it is shown, but it does not.  (It's extended style is 0).
> 

On Jul 25, 11:08 am, "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT
no instrument no spam DOT com> wrote:

> You'll have to do the animation yourself, maybe in WM_CREATE or the
> constructor for the form.  The system code completely ignores any child
> window when doing the animation.
>
> Paul T.
>
> "Jeff Newman"  wrote in message
>
> news:1185319665.198922.26280@b79g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On Jul 24, 2:42 pm, "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT
> > no instrument no spam DOT com> wrote:
> >> What triggers it is a the creation of a new window (top-level), as you
> >> surmised?  What's the real question?  You must want to know for some
> >> reason?
> >> Turn it off?  Set the extended window style to include
> >> WS_EX_NOANIMATION...
>
> >> Paul T.
>
> >>  wrote in message
>
> >>news:1185301807.447376.168380@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>
> >> > On Jul 20, 7:01 pm, "Jeffrey.M.New...@gmail.com"
> >> >  wrote:
> >> >> Does anyone know what triggers the window open animation?  It's that
> >> >> expanding rectangle the you see right before a form is made visible.
> >> >> It seems that if a form does not have a parent or owner specified, it
> >> >> will appear.  Otherwise, it doesn't.  The same thing occurs for the
> >> >> window closing animation.
>
> >> >> I'm guessing there's some message that is sent to the parent control
> >> >> if one exists, and otherwise windows handles it like it does any other
> >> >> window.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> >> > I'm thinking maybe this is device specific behavior, so I figured I'd
> >> > clarify that I am seeing this on Win CE 4.2, running on a pocket PC.
> >> > Any information would be a big help.
>
> > Sorry, I should have been more specific - I'm looking for the
> > opposite.  I want a window which is both a child window, and opens /
> > closes with the exploding / imploding rectangles.  After the
> > WS_EX_NOANIMATION tip, I looked to see if the window has that property
> > set before it is shown, but it does not.  (It's extended style is 0).


Ah well, I was hoping there was an easier way.  Thanks :)