Console Window Control

Hi All,

New to this so if I screw up, sorry

My question: I want to know if there is a way to:

1. Remove the "X" from the upper right corner of a console window so that a user cannot close it from there. OR

2. Make a console window start minimized such that nothing shows in the task bar but an icon shows in the system tray.

Anyone have any ideas/experience with this? I've searched MSDN and all over the place and haven't found anything. I'm hoping that's just because I haven't found the right resource yet and not that it's just not possible to do.

Thanks!

David

ive never seen a console window put into the system tray,
but that doesnt mean its impossible, i have seen
a window program without the window (errr)
umm i mean they never created a window for it so it just ran
without a taskbar entry or a system tray entry.
The onyl place you could find it was in the task manager.

If it possible for your program you could try to create it
in a windows specfic application and just never go
about creating a window.

Im not to sure about everything that went into this
im just going off what i saw. Hopefully will
put you in the right direction, i have visited these boards
for a while now, prolly for about a year or two before i
actually registered and i cant remember any good responses
to this question, which i think was asked a few times before.

I did do a board search trying to come up with some good
stuff for you but i couldnt find anything. So good luck,
i hoping if you understand enough or have done soem winAPI
application that you might beable to get somewhere with this.

For system tran icons:
The Taskbar -> Using the Taskbar
Or search these boards with "Shell_NotifyIcon".

Code:

#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

HWND MyGetConsoleWindow()
{
    // NOTE: if you have 2000/XP and latest Platform SDK, then you can simply 
    //       call GetConsoleWindow()
    char title[MAX_PATH];

    if (GetConsoleTitleA(title, sizeof(title)))
    {
        return FindWindowA(NULL, title);
    }//if

    return 0;
}//MyGetConsoleWindow

bool HideConsoleWindow()
{
    HWND hwnd;

    if ((hwnd = MyGetConsoleWindow()) &&
        ShowWindow(hwnd, SW_HIDE))
    {
        return true;        
    }//if

    return false;
}//HideConsoleWindow

bool DisableSystemMenuClose()
{
    HWND hwnd;
    HMENU sysmenu;
    
    if ((hwnd = MyGetConsoleWindow()) &&
        (sysmenu = GetSystemMenu(hwnd, FALSE)) &&
        DeleteMenu(sysmenu, SC_CLOSE, MF_BYCOMMAND))
    {
        return true;
    }//if

    return false;
}//DisableSystemMenuClose

int main()
{
    if (!DisableSystemMenuClose())
    {
        cerr << "DisableSystemMenuClose() failed, ec = " 
             << GetLastError() << endl;
        return 1;
    }//if

    cout << "Just try and close me!" << endl;

    Sleep(10 * 1000);
    
    if (!HideConsoleWindow())
    {
        cerr << "HideConsoleWindow() failed, ec = " 
             << GetLastError() << endl;
        return 2;
    }//if

    MessageBoxA(NULL, "You can't see me!", "Ha-Ha", MB_OK);

    return 0;
}//main

gg

wow that is cool code, very nice post

Hey that's nice