Minimizing the whole application when the close button is click

[mylixes]

I have a Windows Application. I just don't understand why is it that when i click the Close button, instead of closing the form, it minimizes the whole application.
I don't experience this on my previous runs. It's weird that I am now experiencing it. It's awkward also that I should restore the whole application to begin another transaction.

Below is my code on Close button event.

private void btnClose_Click( object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.Close();
}

[ThatThatGuy]

Is it a dialog form..
Is doesn't seem to be possible though..

can you post your code a bit more..

[Samishii23]

Ok that is what it is doing.
What do you want it to do?

[mylixes]

Ok that is what it is doing.
What do you want it to do?

I just want to close the form when i click the close button. It's just annoying that recently I experiencing that problem. When I click the close button, the form is closing and the other form minimizes. I want the other form to stay open.

[Samishii23]

Do you have multiple forms in your application or are you looking for a full application close and not running any more? If thats the case...

Application.Exit(0);

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157894.aspx

[mylixes]

Do you have multiple forms in your application or are you looking for a full application close and not running any more? If thats the case...

Application.Exit(0);

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157894.aspx

Yes, I have multiple forms in my application. For example, Form1, Form2 and Form3 are all open at the same time. When I click the close button of Form3, I want to close Form3 only and I want Form1 and Form2 to stay open not minimized.
What I am experiencing now is that, when I click the close button of Form3, Form1 and Form2 minimizes. I don't know what triggers that. It's weird because I haven't experienced that on my previous runs.

[tlhintoq]

ThatThatGuy: Is doesn't seem to be possible though..

Oh please... It is easy and commonly done.

Do you have a method attached to the Form_Closing event handler?

Its very easy to catch this event, set the closeargs to cancel, then minimize the form. It sounds like that's what is happening. Though it is odd that it is happening without you knowing you wrote that event handler. Are you collaborating with another coder? Does the problem form inherit from another form that might have this method?

void FormClosing(object sender, eventargs e)
{
   e.cancel = true; // cancel the closing
   this.WindowState = WindowState.Minimize;// Or something to that effect.
}

[ThatThatGuy]

I have a Windows Application. I just don't understand why is it that when i click the Close button, instead of closing the form, it minimizes the whole application.
I don't experience this on my previous runs. It's weird that I am now experiencing it. It's awkward also that I should restore the whole application to begin another transaction.

Below is my code on Close button event.

private void btnClose_Click( object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.Close();
}

Can you post your code so that we could examine a bit

[mylixes]

Can you post your code so that we could examine a bit

private void btnClose_Click( object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.Close();
}
That's the only code i wrote for button close event.
The events I usually used are as follows:

1.OnLoad
2.Keypress and KeyDown to handle inputs
3.Close Event which is the code i posted above

[tlhintoq]

Are you really asking "why does my application close, then I tell it to
This.Close();

Surely you aren't. And if you really don't understand why it is doing it... Give up coding now and go to cooking school instead.

You've already been given the code to override the form closing event and minimize instead. What more do you want?

[ThatThatGuy]

private void btnClose_Click( object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.Close();
}
That's the only code i wrote for button close event.
The events I usually used are as follows:

1.OnLoad
2.Keypress and KeyDown to handle inputs
3.Close Event which is the code i posted above

OK, If You want to close a Dialog Form.. then Preferably use this.Close()

Which closes just the Dialog Form..
Use Application.Exi t() or this.Dispose() to terminate the entire Application....

[tlhintoq]

[highlight]O.P.: [/hightlight]when I click the close button of Form3, Form1 and Form2 minimizes. I don't know what triggers that.

Put a breakpoint on the line that opens Form3. And then debug it (F5)
Walk through your code with the F10 key.
When Form3 closes you should be taken to the code that is executed next. Walk through it until you hit the line minimizing your application.

Or, do a find (ctrl-F) for ".minimize" to see if you are minimizing your form. As well as ".Hide()"

Those would be the two most common ways to hide form1, which in turn hides all the child forms.

[mylixes]

Put a breakpoint on the line that opens Form3. And then debug it (F5)
Walk through your code with the F10 key.
When Form3 closes you should be taken to the code that is executed next. Walk through it until you hit the line minimizing your application.

Or, do a find (ctrl-F) for ".minimize" to see if you are minimizing your form. As well as ".Hide()"

Those would be the two most common ways to hide form1, which in turn hides all the child forms.

Thanks for the help but I did that already.