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I said it before and I'll say it again. 😁
Sometimes I wonder why something so obvious hasn't been fixed yet …
Let me ask the reverse question - Why does the quicken team (programmers, management, etc) think it is NOT a good idea to implement this idea ?
It isn't that. It is the fact that what seems to be easy is actually harder than it looks because of the decisions that have been made by Microsoft and Quicken Inc. The coloring of the title bar is only one aspect of a bigger problem.
In order to support these controls in the main window's title bar:
They have created their own fake "main window" and overlaid on it top of the "real one". See, even though Microsoft does this very same thing, the standard libraries they put out for developers to use don't allow for controls like this. This means that any program that wants to emulate what Microsoft is doing has add code to handle all the different kinds of things like that the standard Windows libraries already handle like the color changes, and the functionality of the maximize button where it now displays options for snapping windows.
It isn't just a matter of "enabling it".
Microsoft has the advantage of access to the very developers/code that created the standard windows library and so they can change that code to add new controls or even have the developers totally rewrite it, but at the same time not make that available to the general public developers.
Add me to the list of those who want Quicken to follow Windows conventions. I just spent a precious part of my day trying to figure out how to make Quicken work in a split screen. I thought it was a bigger problem or that I had forgotten how to do it or something like that. I expect programs to act consistently so it didn't occur to me that Quicken was blazing their own trail. If this had happened with software from some teeny outfit, I might have thought that they were the problem, but Quicken is too big to do this kind of thing.
