Disable "X" in the Dialog Box

[Bebe]

I need to be able to disable the "x" the close button in the upper right-hand corner of my dialog box screen; anyone know the code for this or how to do it?

what happenes is that i have a cancel button to go back to main program and it closes w/o updating the record; however if the user happens to use the "x" instead of cancel the record will update and that leaves a blank or inaccurate record in the database.

any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!!!

[_bman_]

in the Form_QueryUnload event you can test to see how the form is being closed:

if unloadmode = vbformcontrolmenu

the form is being closed by the x button and you can cancel the form closing by

cancel = true

or
if unloadmode = vbformcode

the form is being closed by code in the button and proceed
and allow the form to close

another idea...
set the form borderstyle to none

hope this works for you

Edited by _bman_ on 03-15-2000 at 01:49 PM

[barrie]

The following link shows you how to disable the close button via API

http://www.vb-world.net/tips/tip117.html

[Bebe]

i tried boarderless and it did not take away or enable the minimize, maximize and close buttons on the upper-right hand corner of my dialog box. Also, the record is still saving when i use the unloadmode=vbformcontrolmenu even though it is cancelling the form; any ideas how do i disable the "x"; any more ideas; please!!! i even put code in after cancel=true to not update the database to no avail.

thanks for all help and i already learned something new; cool!!!

[Bebe]

okay spoke to soon i put
if unloadmode=vbformcontrolmenu
then
data2.recordset.edit
data2.recordset.cancelupdate
cancel=true
end
endif

and it cranks it cancels quits the program and does not update the record and using just the cancel command will bring me back to the form -- thanks big time -- your a genius!!!!!

It's the little things in life that make the big things easier!!!!

[WadeD]

If you don't need to give your users the minimize/maximize options, you can also set the form's ControlBox to False

[paulwbarnes]

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[Bebe]

I also found if you set the controlbox property of the form to false you get no minimize, maximize and close button at all a very quick solution!!

thanks for everything!!!