Question

I have a form which I’m setting to disabled via this.Enabled = false on Form_Load if a certain condition is true.

However, this also disables the control box (maximise box, minimize box, and close box).

So when the form is disabled, i have no way of closing it since the close box is disabled as well.

Is there away I can disable the form but leave the close box enabled, so that I can be able to close the disabled form?

This forms’ OnClose event also exits the application.

Answer 1

You can build a small method that would be called if the condition is true and disable all controls/containers available in this Form.

Pseudocode:

    private void  Form1_Load() 
    {
       if(condition)
       { 
          DisableControls();
       }
    }

   private void DisableControls()
   {
        foreach(Control c in this.Controls)
        { 
            // your disable code here.
        }
    }

edit
This method don’t take effect on the controlbox.