Any way to ignore WM_CLOSE ?

[egrath]

Hello,

does anyone knows a way of telling a running program to ignore the WM_CLOSE message?

I need this for one of our Server Application which is running with about 30 open Command Boxes - and i want to prevent anyone from klicking the "X" accidently.

Bye,

Egon

[Delprat]

hello,

I think you should hide them with the CMDOW utility ( link on MSFN , direct link ).

Else, the only way I know is to code a program that will find the handle to each command windows, then subclass them to trap the WM_CLOSE... not sure that will be easy to do with these windows, since they are a bit "specials"...

(another solution would be to modify the system menu to disable to close button -- much more elegant... more complex too)

bye

EDIT: links

Edited June 16, 2005 by Delprat

[egrath]

Hi,

thanks for your reply.

i've found a tool called "noclose.exe" which hides all close options from a open command line window.

The tool itself is attached to this message.

Bye, Egon

noclose.exe

[Delprat]

You're welcome !... and you've found the elegant one

How it works ? (is it "hardcoded" window title or commandline or by process name or ... ?)

bye

[egrath]

Hi,

no it works by retrieving the window handle of the current command line window and deleting the proper Items from the Menu (DeleteMenu)

Bye, Egon