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Window Minimize / Maximize Event (C# winforms)

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:58:34 -0400

If you are working in C# winforms and need to respond to window minimize and maximize events, it seems that winforms does not provide native event handlers. Such a feat is still very much possible through hooking into the Windows API.

The exact message you need to catch is WM_SYSCOMMAND and look for the SC_* messages:

SC_CLOSE 0xF060
SC_MAXIMIZE 0xF030
SC_MINIMIZE 0xF020
SC_RESTORE 0xF120

There are indeed more messages. Check the above link for a full list. Now for some sample code:

Sprite Editor

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:01:56 -0400

Caustik wrote a neat program that lets sprites walk around on your desktop and perform all kinds of random interactions with each other. The program is networked as well, so if you throw a sprite off of your screen it actually goes to another user’s desktop.

Sprite Editor is what it sounds like – it is basically an editor to streamline creation of sprite *.spr and *.spi files. Create your own custom sprites then submit them on the sprites forums and all the users will be able to see your creations.