[2005] Disable X button

[leeprice2006]

is there a way to disable the X button on a form?

[stimbo]

In the Form_Closing routine of the Form you can add this in to disable the X button:

If e.CloseReason = CloseReason.UserClosing Then
    e.Cancel = True
End If

[leeprice2006]

this code disables all ways of closing the form all I want to disable is the X button and Alt+F4

[stimbo]

If I add a button to the form and in its button click event for example I put:

Application.Exit

it closes just fine.

[leeprice2006]

i dont want to add exit the application. I want to close a dialog form. so i use Me.Close() and this doesnt close

[stimbo]

You might just have to set its visible property to false then instead of calling me.close.

Then call Application.Exit at the very end to close everything when done.

[RobDog888]

You can use an API or two to disable the 'x' close button which also removes the system menu item of Close.

http://www.vbforums.com/showpost.php...20&postcount=2

[toecutter]

trust me to break it

[stimbo]

It's not broken, it's just warning that you haven't returned a value from it on expected paths.

Are you having trouble getting it to work or something?

[cameron2]

You could just set the control box property to false......but then there would be no maximize or minimize buttons.

[RobDog888]

You could do that but then the rest of the controls/buttons will be removed too. If you only want the 'x' close button disabled then that wont work.

You can have the sub a Sub instead of a Function and that will remove the warning.