Where are the minimize, maximize, and close buttons stored in Windows? - windows

Are they part of a font? In a DLL?
I've tried looking online but all I can find are posts about people having problems with them disappearing, not their actual location.
How can I extract their icons?

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Toolbox overlaps Form Designer in visual studio

I'm having a problem trying to move the design form window in visual studio, Picture
The designing window is on the top left, The reason is the space, another picture is
As you see, When I open the toolbox, It doesn't let me view the window anymore, while there is a huge unused space, It'd be really great if I can move the designing form to use all of the space I have on my monitor
I have tried googling a lot for this problem, I haven't found any problems matching to mine, It might be a very stupid simple thing, But I have no idea, or at least I googled unmatching keywords to the other people that had the same problem
Click the fixed key to dock the toolbox pane so it doesn't overlap the form designer.
Or as #Jimi said, drag and drop the toolbox pane somewhere else.
If you accidentally close it, you can find it in view->toolbox

Why do standard applications show slightliy different colors

I uploaded a simple png file with a overall fill color here: https://ufile.io/kx1mopq2
If i view this file in the windows explorer or in firefox the color displayed is slightly different than the color shown in Windows Paint, Paint 3d or several other applications i tested - including WinApi and Qt applications i developed myself.
In the screenshot below on the left you see firefox and windows explorer preview - we think that this display color is the correct one. On the right you see Pant and paint 3d. I modified the file in paint as i moved a strip from the left views into the right views in order to make the difference visible.
My question is: Where do these differences have their origin? I want my applications to show the same color as FireFox or Windows Explorer. It seems that there is a application setting or the like that influences that?
Any suggestion welcome.

Convert multiple PNG icons into one .ICO icon

I think I should start by saying that I am a UI Designer.
I am having a really hard time trying to convert 8 png's (same icon in 8 different resolutiona) into one single .ico icon for a Windows app. The png's resolutions are the fallowing x16, x20, x24, x32, x40, x48, x64, x80.
I have tried every convertor online there is and even some obscure softwares and nothing...
Since you posted this to Stackoverflow I'm going to start by linking you to the blog series about the icon format history, specifically the PNG entry.
The best choice for working with icons is special purpose icon editors, they give you full control of PNG compression and other details. A decent free editor you can try is IcoFX.

Add buttons to the windows taskbar thumbnail JavaFX?

This question has been inactive for over a year now. I still don't have a solution for my problem. I edited this to clarify my problem and bring new attention to it.
If you use Windows you probably know the small preview image (thumbnail) that is shown when you hover the icon of the programm on the taskbar.
Some programms manage (e. g. Spotify, previous versions of Git Extension) to add a button to that popup (where the red line is).
For Example: Spotify added some buttons to pause/unpause, skip, etc. I wanted to do something similar for my app.
The question is if this can be done with JavaFX and how this can be done?
I have searched the internet for a solution but I couldn't find any for JavaFX. For example: here is a solution for C#.

Is there an easy way to recreate the WinForms layout experience at runtime for user positioning of controls

When laying out a WinForm in Visual Studio you get the ability to resize and align your controls very easily with drag handles and border alignment hints.
I'd like to do the same with a runtime control to enable the user to position an image on a page.
For example, if the user has a photo and they want to place it as a background on the desktop I'd like the control to help them move and size the photo thumbnail in a mini desktop visual.
I can do all of this, but my real question is, does anyone know of a way to inherit from the standard WinForms layout editor so that I can choose to use the nice docking, alignment hints and control resizing without coding it all again?
Thanks in advance
Ryan
I don't know about easy, but you can host the actual winforms designer in your own applications without too many problems.. See here.

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