Make Your Own Custom Title Bar

'Add a module to your project (In the menu choose Project -> Add Module, Then click Open)
'Set form BorderStyle property to 0-None.You can add your own Command Buttons to the
'Title Bar.
'Insert this code to the module :

Public Type RECT
Left As Long
Top As Long
Right As Long
Bottom As Long
End Type
Declare Function DrawCaption Lib "User32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal hdc As _
Long, pcRect As RECT, ByVal un As Long) As Long
Declare Function SetRect Lib "User32" (lpRect As RECT, ByVal X1 As Long, ByVal _
Y1 As Long, ByVal X2 As Long, ByVal Y2 As Long) As Long
Declare Function SendMessage Lib "User32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As _
Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Any) As Long
Declare Sub ReleaseCapture Lib "User32" ()
Public Const WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN = &HA1
Public Const HTCAPTION = 2

'Insert this code to your form:

'Here you can change the title bar width.
Const TitleWidth = 20
Dim r As RECT

Private Sub Form_Load()
Form1.AutoRedraw = True
Me.Cls
Me.ScaleMode = vbPixels
SetRect r, 0, 0, Me.ScaleWidth, TitleWidth
'To change the title bar color, replace the two '&H9' below with
'&H18' or '&H19' or '&H28'
DrawCaption Me.hwnd, Me.hdc, r, &H9
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Resize()
SetRect r, 0, 0, Me.ScaleWidth, TitleWidth
DrawCaption Me.hwnd, Me.hdc, r, &H9
End Sub

'The following code allow the user to move the form by pressing on the title bar. If you
'don't want this option, don't add the code below.
Private Sub Form_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
If Y > TitleWidth Then Exit Sub
Dim lngReturnValue As Long
If Button = 1 Then
Call ReleaseCapture
lngReturnValue = SendMessage(Me.hwnd, WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN, HTCAPTION, 0&)
End If
End Sub