Upon closing the form by clicking on the button I created named 'Exit' I want it to display a messagebox asking the user "Are you sure you want to exit?" I don't know the syntax for it, can someone help me please? Thanks
You need to look at the Form. closing event. You can place your message box there and then if you want to abort the form closing set e.cancel = true.
if (MessageBox.Show("Are you sure?", "Exit Application?",
MessageBoxButtons.YesNo) == DialogResult.No)
{
// ignore it
}
else
{
// shutdown code goes here
}
There's an MSDN example here.
Have you tried something like:
private void exitToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if(MessageBox.Show("Exit Application?", "", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo) == DialogResult.Yes)
{
this.Close();
}
}
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Here is my C# code:
private void StudentReg_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
{
DialogResult dialog = MessageBox.Show("Do you really want to close this window?", "Exit", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo);
if (dialog == DialogResult.Yes)
{
Application.Exit();
}
else if (dialog == DialogResult.No)
{
e.Cancel = true;
}
}
Depending on how you setup your application like if this is your main form or you have multiple you may need to just remove the event to avoid duplicate calls to it.
Remove the event handler before calling application.exit and I think your issue will be solved.
This is psuedo-code.
private void StudentReg_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
{
DialogResult dialog = MessageBox.Show("Do you really want to close this window?", "Exit", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo);
if(dialog == DialogResult.Yes)
{
StudentReg.FormClosing -= StudentReg_FormClosing;
Application.Exit();
}
else if(dialog == DialogResult.No)
{
e.Cancel = true;
}
}
I doubt if you really want Application.Exit();: you prompt (bold is mine)
Do you really want to close this window
It is the window (Form), not the entire Aplication you want to close. If it's your case, you can just do nothing and let the form (window) close itself:
private void StudentReg_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
{
// Cancel closing (i.e. do NOT close the form) if and only if user's chosen "No".
// Do nothing (i.e. do not cancel) in other cases (let the form be closed)
// So we assign true (cancel) if "No" has been pressed, false otherwise
e.Cancel = MessageBox.Show(
"Do you really want to close this window?",
"Exit",
MessageBoxButtons.YesNo) == DialogResult.No;
}
I have a button for exiting the form and this is the code
DialogResult dialogResult = MessageBox.Show("Are you sure you want to exit?", "Exit Program?", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo);
if (dialogResult == DialogResult.No)
{
}
else
{
Application.Exit();
}
I tried using debugger mode, and after I click yes, it goes through Application.Exit() and then fires up the FormClosing event then running the same dialog.
I also tried deleting the code in FormClosing event so it only has Application.Exit() but using Alt+F4 or clicking the X button will exit the application automatically.
My question is how can I question the user if he wants to exit the program but not firing the dialog twice?
Thanks in advance, and I'm letting you all know I'm just a beginner and this is my biggest project so I want to make this great.
Here's an example. It only asks for confirmation if the close was initiated by the user - you probably don't want a MessageBox popping up when Windows is restarting.
private void form_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
{
if (e.CloseReason == CloseReason.UserClosing)
{
DialogResult dialogResult = MessageBox.Show("Are you sure you want to exit?", "Exit Program?", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo);
if (dialogResult == DialogResult.Yes)
{
Application.Exit();
}
}
else
{
// Cancel the close
e.Cancel = true;
}
}
There are two ways to achieve this.
By unsubscribe the even on button click
As suggested in stuartd's answer, checking reason of closing (but there is a problem in his answer so adding this approach too with fix, so it will help future people.)
I am assuming, As you need this confirmation in both cases, button click and 'x' button click, you have put the same code in both handler.
Approach one
In the handler of button click, while you are asking for user confirmation and if user is clicking 'yes'.
Before the line,
Application.Exit();
you should unsubscribe the Form closing event. By doing this, It must not raise form closing event while performing Application.Exit()
assuming your form is MainForm and event is MainForm_Closing, it would look like,
private void btnClose_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
DialogResult dialogResult = MessageBox.Show("Are you sure you want to exit?", "Exit Program?", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo);
if (dialogResult == DialogResult.Yes)
{
this.FormClosing -= MainForm_FormClosing;
Application.Exit();
}
}
so it will not raise form closing event while performing Application.Exit() and thus your problem will be solved.
Approach Two
As stuartd has suggested (which is more cleaner way according to me. +1 for that), you can check for form closing reason in Form Closing event handler.
Note that there is a little problem (bug) in his sample code [which you have already accepted as an answer!!]. After clicking 'x' button or Alt+F4 by mistake; if user clicks on 'No' on the confirmation message, then too form is being closed because there is no handling for else condition. Proper solution should be like below.
private void MainForm_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
{
if (e.CloseReason == CloseReason.UserClosing)
{
DialogResult dialogResult = MessageBox.Show("Are you sure you want to exit?", "Exit Program?", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo);
if (dialogResult == DialogResult.Yes)
Application.Exit();
else
e.Cancel = true; //stopping Form Close perocess.
}
}
i am pretty newbie for coding. Here is i am having a problem:
private void pano_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
{
DialogResult dialog = MessageBox.Show("Uygulamadan çıkış yapmak istediğinizden emin misiniz?", "Çıkış", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo);
if (dialog == DialogResult.Yes)
{
Application.Exit();
}
else if (dialog == DialogResult.No)
{
e.Cancel = true;
}
My purpose with this code block to ask user "are sure to quit" but unfortunetly when i close the application, i got notification window for 3 times? Is there any idea why thats happening or any solution?
Thanks a lot.
Nuri.
Firstly, as Steve pointed out, remove the 'Yes' part - if not explicitly canceled, the event will close that form as a result of clicking.
Now, for the problem of yours. Seems like your alert is called twice. I was able to solve that easily by making a static bool close_alert_shown, and when the first alert is shown, set it to true so that the next alert won't pop up.
Final code looks like that:
if (close_alert_shown) return;
close_alert_shown = true;
DialogResult dialog = MessageBox.Show("Uygulamadan çıkış yapmak istediğinizden emin misiniz?", "Çıkış", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo);
if (dialog == DialogResult.No)
{
e.Cancel = true;
close_alert_shown = false;
}
And on the top of the form (before the public Form1() contructor line):
static bool close_alert_shown = false;
What i suspect is when application is exiting, it is again calling form closing since we have subscribed for that event. I assume, simple fix would be unsubscribe from the event before calling exit.
this.FormClosing-=Form1_FormClosing;
Application.Exit();
I have a C# GUI application. When the user clicks on the red 'X' (for closing the app) I want to show a message and ask if he really wants to close it.
I found a solution:
DialogResult dialog = MessageBox.Show("Do you really want to close the program?", "SomeTitle", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo);
if (dialog == DialogResult.Yes)
{
Application.Exit();
}else if (dialog == DialogResult.No)
{
//don't do anything
}
When the user clicks 'yes', the application should terminate completely. (Is Application.Exit() correct for this purpose?)
When the user clicks 'no', the DialogResult/MessageBox should close, but the application should stay opened. However, it closes!!
How can I avoid this?
BTW: I use Visual Studio 2010 and Winforms.
Use the FormClosing event from the Form, and the FormClosingEventArgs to cancel the process.
example:
private void Form1_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
{
DialogResult dialog = dialog = MessageBox.Show("Do you really want to close the program?", "SomeTitle", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo);
if (dialog == DialogResult.No)
{
e.Cancel = true;
}
}
Use the form's FormClosing event of your program window. You can then set e.Cancel to true if the user clicks no:
this.FormClosing += (s, e) => {
DialogResult dialog = dialog = MessageBox.Show("Really close?", "SomeTitle",
MessageBoxButtons.YesNo);
if (dialog == DialogResult.No)
{
e.Cancel = true;
}
};
I guess you are using FormClosed. Are you? Then it's too late.
Try this
this.FormClosing += new FormClosingEventHandler(delegate(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
{
if (MessageBox.Show("Do you really want to exit this application?", MessageBoxButtons:=MessageBoxButtons.YesNo) == DialogResult.No)
{
e.Cancel = true;
}
});
Refer to Mudu's answer.
Basically unless you specify additional parameters to MessageBox.Show() you cannot get any result other than DialogResult.Ok from a default MessageBox.
The code you posted (minus your little typo of dialog = dialog =) works exactly as expected to me.
Also: Application.Exit() IS the correct way of closing an application :)
I am using C# here. I have a form where the user can select Yes or No, and if they choose No, a message box appears and asks them if they are sure. If they click No, I want to show the form again. Here's my code:
public void function()
{
MyForm form = new MyForm();
if (form.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.No)
{
if (MessageBox.Show("Are you sure?",
MessageBoxButtons.YesNo) == DialogResult.Yes)
{
runFinished.Dispose();
return;
}
else
{
//Show form again. How??
}
}
}
Thanks everybody for your help!
Arrange that the No button MyForm does the call to MessageBox. Only if the user is sure do you then go on to close the dialog. Your current approach of asking the question after the dialog has closed is incorrect.
You can effect the change by making sure that DialogResult is set in code rather than by the No button's DialogResult property. Then in the click handler for the button you run the message box. If the user confirms the action, then set the forms DialogResult to DialogResult.No.
Call two events depending on whether no or yes is selected (within MyForm). For example
void OnNoEvent(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (MessageBox.Show("Are you sure?", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo) == DialogResult.Yes)
{
this.DialogResult = DialogResult.No;
this.Close();
}
}
void OnYesEvent(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.DialogResult = DialogResult.Yes;
this.Close();
}
This is probably better than opening the dialog box many times.
Then the code to open the dialog is easy.
MyForm form = new MyForm();
if (form.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.No)
// perform actions here
There is the standart means: Form.FormClosing.
See example: example
Maybe I am missing something here, but why not use a while loop?
public void function()
{
MyForm form = new MyForm();
while(form.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.No)
{
if (MessageBox.Show("Are you sure?",
MessageBoxButtons.YesNo) == DialogResult.Yes)
{
runFinished.Dispose();
return;
}
}
}