Re: How to create a window that cannot be closed by clicking on the X button

Hi,



On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 11:45 AM Matthias Brennwald <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I am trying to create a window/frame that cannot be closed by clicking on
> the X button. The purpose of the window is to show log messages or warnings
> coming from various parts of the program.
>
> At first, I tried to remove the X button, but I couldn't make it work (I
> tried this:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25024129/wxpython-how-to-hide-the-x-and-expand-button-on-window
> ). For now, I just made an event handler that essentially discards the
> "clicked on the X button" event. While this achieves what I need, it is
> confusing to the user ("Why is there an X button, if it does nothing!?")
>
> Is there a better, cleaner, nicer way to prevent users from closing a
> window?
>

I would suggest raising a dialog window that explains why you don't want
them to close the window and provide a "really close" option that does
really close the window.

--Matt

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