How to Block or Disable or Hide window close button?

[smashly]

Is there any way for AutoIt to Block or Disable or Hide the Close button of a running program while still leaving the rest of the running program window enabled?

By Close button I mean the X on upper right of the title bar .

I did have a search for an answer , but I guess I'm not using the correct Key words in my search.

tyia for any response.

Cheers.

Edited September 15, 2006 by smashly

[xcal]

What's it for?

[geocine]

I hope i get it right [this is to disable]

While 1
    $msg = GuiGetMsg()
    Select
    Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
        ;;;
    EndSelect
WEnd

notice the ;;; its a NOP for Exitloop

Edited September 15, 2006 by geocine

[smashly]

Hi and thank you for the responses,

It's to make my autoit utilitray script complete(ish)..lol

basicly I've made tray menu that lets me add my prefered shortcuts to it.

I've added what I call advanced options on how the added tray menu shortcuts can be launched.

Currently it supports 10 user defined tray menu items that can be configured through the "Add & Remove & Edit Configure Shortcut" window which is accessed through the utilitray tray menu.

eg:

Name To Display in tray menu

Program to run

Parameters

Run Program Hidden

Hide & Show Program

Stop & Start Program <----- For this I'd like to disable the programs X close button

Close program on exit of utilitray

Lock Program Window

Load last exit state when utilitray is launched.

The progam utilitray launches could be any program at all.

The script is around 4000+ lines at present and works ok.

I have no problem with AutoIt Gui windows and removing , blocking , dissabling the X close as I can set the gui style and etended styles to suite.

But when it comes to a non autoit program and trying to do the same thing I can't see an easy way to do what I'm after.

Surely there's a niffty neat way to do it ?

Can post my bodgey utilitray script if need be , but I don't see it helping any to get a resolve.

It's not a script problem it's just a function I was hoping possible

Cheers.

[geocine]

oh. thats interesting.. if possible.. share that script to me.. we are both noobs here hahaha but im much of a noob.

[SmOke_N]

This will take care of the menu for the most part (menu close), but it doesn't neccessarily work on the "X" to close the app. I'm not aware of an API call that does this specifically:

$Hwnd = WinGetHandle("WindowTitle Here")

Global Const $SC_CLOSE = 0xF060

$menu = DllCall("user32.dll","hwnd","GetSystemMenu","hwnd", $Hwnd, "int",0)
DllCall("user32.dll", "int", "RemoveMenu", "hwnd", $menu[0] , "int", $SC_CLOSE, "int", 0x0)

[GaryFrost]

This will take care of the menu for the most part (menu close), but it doesn't neccessarily work on the "X" to close the app. I'm not aware of an API call that does this specifically:

$Hwnd = WinGetHandle("WindowTitle Here")

Global Const $SC_CLOSE = 0xF060

$menu = DllCall("user32.dll","hwnd","GetSystemMenu","hwnd", $Hwnd, "int",0)
DllCall("user32.dll", "int", "RemoveMenu", "hwnd", $menu[0] , "int", $SC_CLOSE, "int", 0x0)

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...ic=6577&hl=

[geocine]

how about this

While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    Select
        Case $nMsg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            GUISetState(@SW_HIDE)
    EndSelect
WEnd

Edited September 16, 2006 by geocine

[SmOke_N]

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...ic=6577&hl=

Hmm, wonder how the hell I missed that one!