InfoPath Dev

Hi,

I have seen that on winform you can disable "the close cross" (the red cross for close the form (up right)) and I asking me if this possible to make in Infopath?

the code for Winform:

private const int CS_NOCLOSE = 0x0200;

protected override CreateParams CreateParams
{
       get
       {
           CreateParams cp = base.CreateParams;
           cp.ClassStyle |= CS_NOCLOSE;
           return cp;
       }
}

Thanks for your feedback

++

Thierry

As per our knowledges it is not possible, please let us know if you find any solution. Thanks!

Hi Thierry,
Frank Dauche, who used to actively post in this forum, found a way to do this using the technique you describe. It was a little tricky to get the correct window handle, but so long as you have some managed code, you can access the properties for your window. I asked him to post his solution, but he got hired at Microsoft and has been busy ever since. I'll ping him again and see what he is doing. Bottom line: it's doable.
Cheers!

Did this ever get posted to the site?

 

Thanks.

Hi HockeyJac and welcome,

Unfortunately, I never got a reply from Frank and he is now a program manager at Microsoft. My recollection was that he had to write code to get the window handle for InfoPath and then using Windows GDI functions disable the cross. It's not something that we have time to investigate now for the forum, and I'm sorry we can't provide free help here. I'm guessing it's a good 4 hours of developer time to investigate and write the code. If Frank had sent the code, it would have been maybe 30 minutes to integrate with existing code.

Thanks.

If we figure something out, I will post it here.