How can a console app detect when it is being closed?

Don Clugston dac at nospam.com.au
Tue Aug 1 05:08:13 PDT 2006


Hasan Aljudy wrote:
> 
> 
> Don Clugston wrote:
>>
>> Suppose I have the trivial console app:
>>
>> import std.stdio;
>>
>> static ~this()
>> {
>>     writefln("Exiting program");
>> }
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>>     scope (exit) writefln("Exiting scope");
>>   for (;;) {
>>     writefln("xxx");
>>  }
>> }
>>
>> When you press ctrl-C, neither of the exit messages are printed.
>> What I'd like to do is pop up an "Are you sure?" message box on any 
>> attempt to close the program. I could create an invisible window from 
>> the console app, but I'm hoping for something less ugly.  I just don't 
>> know how to intercept WM_QUIT messages from a console app -- any ideas?
> 
> 
> Here's a way to do it with C++:
> http://www.codeproject.com/win32/console_event_handling.asp?print=true
> 
> (I just googled for console events ..)

Thanks! That will do quite nicely.



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