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Lou
Posts: 81

Hide the close button Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 25 Aug 06 10:59 AM

When spawning forms, is there a way to hide the close button? Users need to strictly utilize the GUI.

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Timmus Agersea
Posts: 328

Re: Hide the close button Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 28 Aug 06 12:57 AM

I wont say it is impossible since there may be Win32 calls to do so (not my expertise). From within the SalesLogix toolbox, however, I would say this is not possible.

Please supply some more info on what you need and I am certain we can assist. For example, you can have code call your form and that code can react based on the modal result of that form. Using the X is the same as the user hitting cancel.

Timmus

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Lou
Posts: 81

Re: Hide the close button Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 28 Aug 06 7:49 AM

Thanks for the info, Timmus. I had already put the necessary code in the form's "OnClose" event. I was just curious if it was possible to hide the button, which would just make things a little bit easier.

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: Hide the close button Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 28 Aug 06 10:17 AM

Timmus is right, nothing built in to do this. You can do it with Win32 API calls (See http://ryanfarley.com/blog/archive/2004/04/12/526.aspx), but you won't be able to call those from VBScript.

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Jeremy Brayton
Posts: 491

Re: Hide the close button Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 28 Aug 06 1:50 PM

Actually, with 6.2 and mainviews you can change the border style to resizable or a toolbox and it'll change the behavior of the window itself. There may be a style that turns it off but the total behavior may not be desired.

One thing you could do is to use the OnCloseQuery or OnClose events and specify a boolean that is set by "normal" close methods such as the Cancel or OK buttons. The routine can then tell if the user clicked X or not and even chastise them for doing so (OnCloseQuery). It's a lot of extra work when you place this in the context of EVERY form but it's probably better to use this on a couple of forms you know must be manipulated a certain way.

I totally understand why you'd want to do this. Users have a habit of clicking the X when they see the form is seemingly unresponsive. They then turn around not more than 2 seconds later and try again, causing the form to behave weirdly in certain instances because of caching.

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