Close box in Windows XP

[Sarah Reichelt]

Hi Mark,
Thanks for replying.
> I'm just getting back into town after a couple of days away and
> working my way through a stack of emails that have come in during my
> absence, so I'm replying directly to this instead of going to the
> list. Can you possibly open the stack window modally? That gets rid of
> the close box.
No, it has to be topLevel :-(
>
> Also, I just did a test and set the controls of a stack from the
> Property Inspector to "title" and it did the same thing. Do you need
> to have the minimize and maximize buttons available?
Yes, the window covers a lot of the screen, and it will most likely be 
running while other apps are being used, so I want to be able to 
minimize.

In the end, I have decided to leave the close box, but treat it as if 
the user had decided to quit completely.

Cheers,
Sarah

>
> -- 
> -Mark
>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>
> Wednesday, April 7, 2004, 4:26:21 PM, you wrote:
>
> SR> Does anyone know how I can get rid of the close box in a stack 
> window
> SR> with Windows XP? In Mac OS X, I can set the decorations to
> SR> "title,menu,maximize,minimize" which gives me exactly what I want 
> with
> SR> a close button visible but disabled. In Windows XP, no combination 
> of
> SR> settings seems to disable or hide the close box except if you 
> remove
> SR> "menu" from the decorations, which I don't want to do since it 
> removes
> SR> everything.
>
> SR> Does any Windows expert out there know how I can hide the close 
> box? I
> SR> don't want to just trap the message and refuse to close the window 
> as
> SR> that would cause confusion, but I really don't want the users to be
> SR> able to close a particular window unless they are quitting the 
> entire
> SR> application.
>
> SR> TIA,
> SR> Sarah
>
> _______________________________________________
> use-revolution mailing list
> use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
>
>
>