Change the way x closes a form

[Jon Brunson]

Is it possible to change the way the x button in the top right closes a
form? Currently it just "smart minimises" the form, but I want it to be
able to act like the OK button, and actually close the form. Is there a
way to do this? Or, at least, an event that gets fired when the x is
clicked, so that I could close it manually?

 

[Maarten Struys, eMVP]

Take a look here:
http://wiki.opennetcf.org/ow.asp?CompactFrameworkFAQ/ReplaceSmartMinimize

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Maarten Struys, eMVP
PTS Software bv

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[Jon Brunson]

Take a look here:
http://wiki.opennetcf.org/ow.asp?CompactFrameworkFAQ/ReplaceSmartMinimize

Thanks for the reply, but I don't want the OK button, I want an x.
Having an OK button in my program would be mis-leading, as the action of
closing the form is Cancel, not OK.

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

You could write an override to OnDeactivate for your form which calls Close.
However this will also be fired if another window is activated. Another
option would be to add an explicit Exit option on a menu.

Peter

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[Maarten Struys, eMVP]

Hmm, I could have read your question better I guess. There is no specific
"Smart Minimize" event. You might be able to use the Deactivate event,
although you have to be aware that it will not get fired exclusively on
clicking the 'X' button. Take a look here for some more information:
http://groups.google.nl/[email protected]#link1

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Maarten Struys, eMVP
PTS Software bv

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[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

So you deliberately want your app to work opposite the way every other PPC
app works? I admit it's confusing, but it's worse to have different apps on
the same device work differently. If you wan't the app to close, use a menu
item.

-Chris

 

[Jon Brunson]

Perhaps I should explain more.

I'm writing a program for a customer where they select, from a list (on
FormA), one of many a procedures to run. This procedure then loads in
FormB (FormB.ShowDialog()). If, however, the user wants to cancel out of
the procedure, they sould be able to click the x button, and return to
the procedure list (FromA). Clicking an OK button would be a
contradiction in terms, as infact they'd want to Cancel, not Confirm.
However, if I set FormB.Minimise = True, and showed the x button, it
wouldn't close the form, and thus not run the code after the
FormB.ShowDialog(). Infact, it would render the program usless until you
"smart maximised" (if such a thing exists) FormB and continuted the
procedure.

I've never understood the reason why Microsft even smart-minimises
programs. Most of the time you don't want to resume from where you left
an application, and those which you do (File Explorer) save that
information when you exit the application anyway. But hey, that's
another story.

Is there a way to handle the resize event when the form gets minimised,
like you can in VB6/Full.NET?