System menu close box

[Bern Ertl]

Is there any easy way to distinguish when a user clicks the system menu close box (the X in top right of a dialog) versus a DIALOG END hDlg, 0?

Thanks...


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Bernard Ertl

[Lance Edmonds]

When a dialog is instructed to close, the Callback Function gets a %WM_SYSCOMMAND | %SC_CLOSE message. This occurs whether the dialog is closed via the System Menu, the Close box, or a DIALOG END statement.

Therefore, if you want to distinguish between your own close routine (that uses DIALOG END) and the System Menu/Close selection, return an appropriate value with the user-defined parameter of the DIALOG END statement. This value is then passed to the calling code.

Since the system Close menu item will close the dialog without regard to a return value, the dialog will return zero to the calling code.

Therefore, detecting how the dialog was closed from within the _calling_ code is simply a matter of setting the return value in the callback, and checking the dialog return value.

Clear as mud?

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Lance
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