Hello all,

   I was wondering if anyone knew how to disable the minimize and more importantly the close "X" buttons in the upper right hand corner of a pop-up window.

Thanks for the help,

Jim

No, not possible. Consider the security ramifications if you could open a window that the client couldn't close.

Mozilla provides signed scripts for such functionality, but it's proprietary to the Gecko browser. Read my responses to this thread:
http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16522

Alternatively you can use CSS and layering to simulate a popup window, the content can either be included directory in the document or called using an inline frame. The caveat is the layer cannot leave the window calling it and when the browser window is closed, the layer of course goes with it.

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Rich

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Thanks, I didn't think I could.
Is it possible in code to stop the user in the OnUnlod event? Or does this go back to your security comment?

BTW such functionality is generally referred to as a "chromeless" window, the chrome refers to the browser controls, window border, close, minimize, etc.

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Rich

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Why do you need to prevent the user from closing the window?

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Rich

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if they close the window without submitting, it can cause data issuse in the DB. I can't make the window modal because they need to move between the pop-up and calling window

Have you tried submitting the form onunload? I don't know if that works. You can force a confirmation dialouge onunload.

If you have the possibility of a DB being effected, such as fields across multiple tables where each must have rows with corresponding ids, I would suggest that you create all of those rows up front, and then if the user closes a window before completing steps in the submission, you can write a script to resume at the same place when the user comes back by detecting what fields exist and contiain data. (Just guessing at the scenario of course) Thing is it's better to anticipate the user closing the window than trying to stop them from doing it, e.g. anything that can go wrong will!

HTH!

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Rich

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   I tried submitting on OnUnLoad however there would be no way for me to validate data, also, if they do hit Submit, there will be 2 rows in the table.
  I guess I just need to stress to the users to be sure to Submit. But you are correct, what ever can go wrong will.

Thanks for your help!!

Jim

Sorta the same topic we need to disable all browser functions when opening a window. This is for a corporate app and security wise want the printing, save, cut, copy, alt, ctl. Fkeys essentually everything shut off. We are converting everything to a graphic file so no highlighting will work.

Consider this an IE project.

B

You can disable to your heart's content, but keep in mind the user can go around all of that and get the content directly from the cache. This is even easier to do in IE. You can disable the cache too, but in that case the user can disable script and just access the content directly.

You can make it difficult, but it's not impossible to work around disabling those controls. Any content rights management in a browser that you hope to attain is an illusion and should be treated as such.

You also don't need to convert to a graphic to prevent selection.


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Rich

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