Make a borderless form movable?

Question

Is there a way to make a form that has no border (FormBorderStyle is set to \"none\") movable when the mouse is clicked down on the form just as if there was a border?

Answer 1

Adding a MouseLeftButtonDown event handler to the MainWindow worked for me.

In the event function that gets automatically generated, add the below code:

base.OnMouseLeftButtonDown(e);
this.DragMove();

Answer 2

Ref. video Link

This is tested and easy to understand.

protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)
{
    switch (m.Msg)
    {
        case 0x84:
            base.WndProc(ref m);
            if((int)m.Result == 0x1)
                m.Result = (IntPtr)0x2;
            return;
    }

    base.WndProc(ref m);
}

Answer 3

This article on CodeProject details a technique. Is basically boils down to:

public const int WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN = 0xA1;
public const int HT_CAPTION = 0x2;

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("user32.dll")]
public static extern int SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, int Msg, int wParam, int lParam);
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("user32.dll")]
public static extern bool ReleaseCapture();

private void Form1_MouseDown(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e)
{     
    if (e.Button == MouseButtons.Left)
    {
        ReleaseCapture();
        SendMessage(Handle, WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN, HT_CAPTION, 0);
    }
}

This essentially does exactly the same as grabbing the title bar of a window, from the window manager's point of view.

Answer 4

Another simpler way to do the same thing.

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        // set this.FormBorderStyle to None here if needed
        // if set to none, make sure you have a way to close the form!
    }
    protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)
    {
        base.WndProc(ref m);
        if (m.Msg == WM_NCHITTEST)
            m.Result = (IntPtr)(HT_CAPTION);
    }

    private const int WM_NCHITTEST = 0x84;
    private const int HT_CLIENT = 0x1;
    private const int HT_CAPTION = 0x2;
}

Answer 5

Easiest way is:

First create a label named label1. Go to label1's events > mouse events > Label1_Mouse Move and write these:

if (e.Button == MouseButtons.Left){
    Left += e.X;
    Top += e.Y;`
}

Answer 6

public Point mouseLocation;
private void frmInstallDevice_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
  mouseLocation = new Point(-e.X, -e.Y);
}

private void frmInstallDevice_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
  if (e.Button == MouseButtons.Left)
  {
    Point mousePos = Control.MousePosition;
    mousePos.Offset(mouseLocation.X, mouseLocation.Y);
    Location = mousePos;
  }
}

this can solve ur problem....