> On my form if the user clicks the upper right hand corner to close the 
> form
> I want to trap that event and do a check to see if closing is allowed, if
> not, I want to stop the form closing action.
>
> Can anyone tell me how I can do this?
>
> Thanks for any help
> Bob
>
>

> "Robert Dufour" <bduf***@sgiims.com> schrieb:
> > On my form if the user clicks the upper right hand corner to close the
> > form I want to trap that event and do a check to see if closing is
> > allowed, if not, I want to stop the form closing action.
>
> In addition to the other replies:
>
> If you are using .NET 2.0, check out the form's 'FormClosing' event too.
>
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"gene kelley" <o***@by.me> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:59:07 -0400, "Robert Dufour" <bduf***@sgiims.com>
> wrote:
>
>>On my form if the user clicks the upper right hand corner to close the
>>form
>>I want to trap that event and do a check to see if closing is allowed, if
>>not, I want to stop the form closing action.
>>
>>Can anyone tell me how I can do this?
>>
>>Thanks for any help
>>Bob
>>
>
> In VB6, there was the QueryUnload event which had an UnloadMode argument,
> one of
> which was vbFormControlMenu which was specific to the "X" button and the
> control
> menu, "Close".
>
> In .Net, AFAIK, there is no functional equivalent short of using the
> WndProc method.
> FormClosing event will fire when the "X" button is pressed (3-User
> Closing), but it
> also fires for the same reason if Me.Close() is called  - 3-User Closing.
>
> Gene