Form Close Button

[darth vader]

Hi

Like to check if it is possible to disable the VB Form top right hand corner close button as in my application , i have a form to prompt user to select. I need to disable it so as to prevent user from closing the form accidentally .

Any eg of illustration is appreciated. Thanks

[Shuja Ali]

Hi

Like to check if it is possible to disable the VB Form top right hand corner close button as in my application , i have a form to prompt user to select. I need to disable it so as to prevent user from closing the form accidentally .

Any eg of illustration is appreciated. Thanks

There are multiple ways of doing this. The easiest would be to use the QueryUnload Event of the Form itself and check how the form is being closed.

Private Sub Form_QueryUnload(Cancel As Integer, UnloadMode As Integer)
	'prevents use of close button
	If UnloadMode = vbFormControlMenu Then
		Cancel = True
	End If
End Sub

However this does not show the button as disabled. User will be able to click the button, but the Form won't unload itself.

More Complex way would be to use API

Private Const MF_BYPOSITION = &H400
Private Const MF_REMOVE = &H1000
'API Functions that need to be called to Disable the Close Button on the Form
Private Declare Function DrawMenuBar Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetMenuItemCount Lib "user32" (ByVal hMenu As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetSystemMenu Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal bRevert As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function RemoveMenu Lib "user32" (ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal nPosition As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long) As Long
 
Private Sub Form_Initialize()
Dim hMenu		 As Long
Dim menuItemCount As Long
'Get the Handle of the Menu
hMenu = GetSystemMenu(Me.hWnd, 0)
If hMenu Then
	'Get the Number of Items present in the Menu
	menuItemCount = GetMenuItemCount(hMenu)
	'Remove the system menu Close menu item.
	'The menu item is 0-based, so the last
	'item on the menu is menuItemCount - 1
	Call RemoveMenu(hMenu, menuItemCount - 1, MF_REMOVE Or MF_BYPOSITION)
	'Remove the Separator line from the Menu
	Call RemoveMenu(hMenu, menuItemCount - 2, MF_REMOVE Or MF_BYPOSITION)
	'Redraw the menu, this will refresh the Title Bar and disable the X button
	Call DrawMenuBar(hWnd)
End If
End Sub

This will disable the Close button on the Form.

[Buddy008]

There is a way to do this from form properties too.

I don't have it infront of me right now, but it's something like:

You can disable the control box of the form in the properties window, and that either removes everything up there, or just the min/max buttons.

There is also a way to gray it out... I will go play around and see what I come up with

Just seems simpler than using an API.

[Shuja Ali]

There is a way to do this from form properties too.

I don't have it infront of me right now, but it's something like:

You can disable the control box of the form in the properties window, and that either removes everything up there, or just the min/max buttons.

Make the ControlBox property of the Form False. But this will remove Maximize and Minimize buttons too from the Form.

There is also a way to gray it out... I will go play around and see what I come up with

Just seems simpler than using an API.

API is the way that I have used so far to Disable just the Close(X) button on the Form.

[slgknjn]

Posted - 06/30/2004 : 08:15:10 AM


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Hi Guys

It might be similar to the the privious code posted, this code remove the close button.

I fund this code in a book, and it should do the trick.
The code should be placed in the userforms code module.

'Hide a UserForm's Close Button
'Find the userform's Window
Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" _
Alias "FindWindowA" ( _
ByVal lpClassName As String, _
ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long

'Get the current window style
Private Declare Function GetWindowLong Lib "user32" _
Alias "GetWindowLongA" ( _
ByVal hWnd As Long, _
ByVal nIndex As Long) As Long

'Set the new window style
Private Declare Function SetWindowLong Lib "user32" _
Alias "SetWindowLongA" ( _
ByVal hWnd As Long, _
ByVal nIndex As Long, _
ByVal dwNewLong As Long) As Long

Const GWL_STYLE = -16
Const WS_SYSMENU = &H80000

Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
Dim hWnd As Long, lStyle As Long

'Which type of userform
If Val(Application.Version) >= 9 Then
hWnd = FindWindow("ThunderDFrame", Me.Caption)
Else
hWnd = FindWindow("ThunderXFrame", Me.Caption)
End If

'Get the current window style and turn off the Close button
lStyle = GetWindowLong(hWnd, GWL_STYLE)
SetWindowLong hWnd, GWL_STYLE, (lStyle And Not WS_SYSMENU)
End Sub

Cheers
Karsten

[RhinoBull]

You may find FormBdr sample project by Karl E. Perterson very usefull.
There is a wrapper class that does all this tricks and it's quite easy to use.