Win32 Console Application Problem.

Hello, i'm working on a game. i disabled right clicking to actually not be able to modify the buffer size of the console and more options.

Now, i got a big problem, people can still click the top left icon to modify some of the cmd options. How is it possible to disable the edit option for cmd?

Why do you need to?

Because i'm making an "Mmorpg".

Roleplaying online game.

Originally Posted by kevinawad

Because i'm making an "Mmorpg".

Roleplaying online game.

I don't use those, so I still don't understand why it's that important, but just tell the users not to do it. If they do it anyways, that's their own fault.

But there is a way to do it... i just need to know how.

Try this on for size:

Code:

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
  char title[500];
  HWND hwnd;
  HMENU hmenu;

  // Get the system menu
  GetConsoleTitle( title, 500);
  hwnd = FindWindow( NULL, title);
  hmenu = GetSystemMenu( hwnd, FALSE);

  // Remove all its items
  while (DeleteMenu( hmenu, 0, MF_BYPOSITION))
      ;

  // Add "Close" back
  AppendMenu( hmenu, MF_STRING, SC_CLOSE, "Close");

  printf( "Hello world\n");
  system( "pause");
}

Works, thank you so much.

Originally Posted by nucleon

Code:

  // Get the system menu
  GetConsoleTitle( title, 500);
  hwnd = FindWindow( NULL, title);

Can be simplified to

Code:

hwnd = GetConsoleWindow();

Code:

  printf( "Hello world\n");

Avoid using C stuff on the C++ board.

Code:

  system( "pause");

Bad bad. Unportable.
Best option is to let the IDE do the pausing. Otherwise, use cin.get().

I thought there was a better way to get the hwnd, but couldn't remember what it was! As for the C, I forgot which board we were on. As for system("pause"), I usually remove that before posting. It works well for me in testing.

I can imagine the system pause works for you, but since this is a board about portability and such, it is best if you avoid posting non-portable solutions when there is a portable one.
One day you might even become a great member of this board who teaches newbies good style and portable solutions!

I'll try to keep portability and style in mind.
I doubt I have the patience to be a "great" member.
I'll just help out!