How to disable the close button of console using C
The code for making the close button disabled is given below. It disables the close button and hence user cannot close console. But one can close console using Task Manager.
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500
#include
#include
int main(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
HWND h;
HMENU sm;
int i, j, c;
LPTSTR buf;
// get the handle to the console
h = GetConsoleWindow();
// get handle to the System Menu
sm = GetSystemMenu(h, 0);
// how many items are there?
c = GetMenuItemCount(sm);
j = -1;
buf = (TCHAR*) malloc (256 *sizeof(TCHAR));
for (i=0; i
// find the one we want
GetMenuString(sm, i, buf, 255, MF_BYPOSITION);
if (!strcmp(buf, "&Close")) {
j = i;
break;
}
}
// if found, remove that menu item
if (j >= 0)
RemoveMenu(sm, j, MF_BYPOSITION);
return 0;
}