Disable System Close Button on a Console Application

John L. DeVito

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6 Dec 2003CPOL

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This code is a simple way to disable the close button on a Windows Console Application. It can also be used to disable any of the system menu buttons

Introduction

This program is a VERY simple one to demostrate how to disable the close button on a Windows Console App. When I was looking up how to do this, I failed to find anything to help me on the site save the forums.

In reality we simply need to call two separate functions GetSystemMenu() and DeleteMenu(). This same algorithm can be used to disable/enable ANY of the system menu buttons.

The entry point for YOUR code is in the else block after testing for MFC failure.

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Written By

John L. DeVito

Systems / Hardware Administrator

United States

Teaching myself Microsoft technologies after initially learning from open source mainly linux/c.
Currently administer a small network of approx. 20 clients. The company I work for has switch to a different more "modern?" dispatch/scheduling solution. I feel all solutions we've found are unsuitable and so I'd like to start my own solution from scratch.