Disable Main Window close button and pulldown

Put the following codes into your program, suppose "toplevel" is the toplevel shell
of your program:
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#include <Xm/MwmUtil.h>
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        XtVaSetValues(toplevel,
               XmNmwmDecorations,MWM_DECOR_TITLE|MWM_DECOR_BORDER
                                    |MWM_DECOR_MINIMIZE|MWM_DECOR_MENU,
               XmNmwmFunctions, MWM_FUNC_MOVE|MWM_FUNC_MINIMIZE,
               NULL);                                                              

We will be trying out this solution shortly. Thanks for the quick response.

Andrew

Could you explain the lines of code as to how they relate to disabling action on main window close and main window close pulldown.

Another suggestion from engineers is to trap the close on the close button and window close menu item and treat is as though the exit button was selected.

This does not disable the close menu item or the close action for the window menu button.

I just talked to a technical support person at ICS whose product we bought to do window development. Apparently disabling the close button in CDE may not be possible.

ydsh

The solution does work under CDE. Post a message to this question and I will declare the question answered and you will get credit for the question with a grade of "A".

Andrew

Dear Mr. andrewmchorney,
 
  I have to tell you that my solution works both on HP VUE and CDE. Besides, I have ported
the codes to Solaris2.5 which also has the CDE, and it works fairly well.
  As to the following definitions:
                    MWM_DECOR_TITLE|MWM_DECOR_BORDER
                    |MWM_DECOR_MINIMIZE|MWM_DECOR_MENU,
I suggest that you should refer to the Motif development books.
Good luck.

   yours
      ydsh

ydsh

I had to put the code into the class constructor for the builder accessory code and it works quite well. Your solution was excellent.

ydsh

declare the solution and I will accept the answer and you will get the points and a grade of A.

Andrew

Solution and explaination was excellent.