Hide main form instead of closing

[Matthew]

I would like to make it so when a user clicks the X in the upper right
corner it hides the form instead of closing it. I have an icon in the
system tray, and other forms running. If the main form closes, these exit
as well.

Can this be done?

Matthew

[Imran Koradia]

In the closing event of the form, do something like this:

Private Sub Form1_Closing(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) _
Handles MyBase.Closing
Me.Hide()
e.Cancel = True
End Sub

Note that you'll then need to use Application.Exit( ) to exit the
application since closing the form is not going to exit and also calling
Form1.Close won't help since this also fires the Closing event.

hope that helps..
Imran.

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I would like to make it so when a user clicks the X in the upper right
corner it hides the form instead of closing it. I have an icon in the
system tray, and other forms running. If the main form closes, these exit
as well.

Can this be done?

Matthew

[Cor Ligthert]

Matthew,

This is very bad programmers behaviour and your users will not like you.

They are used to there normal habbits, what you want to do is making a car
go to the left when the wheel is turned to the right and let the car speed
up when you push the brakes.

Just my 2 eurocents

Cor

[Matthew]

> In the closing event of the form, do something like this:

Private Sub Form1_Closing(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) _
Handles MyBase.Closing
Me.Hide()
e.Cancel = True
End Sub

Perfect! Thanks for your help.

Matthew

[Matthew]

> In the closing event of the form, do something like this:

Private Sub Form1_Closing(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) _
Handles MyBase.Closing
Me.Hide()
e.Cancel = True
End Sub

Perfect! Thanks for your help.

Matthew

[Matthew]

> This is very bad programmers behaviour and your users will not like you.

They are used to there normal habbits, what you want to do is making a car
go to the left when the wheel is turned to the right and let the car speed
up when you push the brakes.

Thanks for the advice. I will keep it in mind.
I think in this instance the users would be disappointed if the [entire]
application closed.
However, I will definitely listen to user feedback and take that feature off
if they don't like it.

Matthew