How could I understand that user pressed X button on cmd window?

Question

I have written a program in C++ and before exit I store some data in files. However, if the user clicks on the close box (X) on top right corner I lose those data. Is there a way to detect if the user clicks on the close box, so that I call some functions before exit?

Is this on Windows? If so, take a look at [`SetConsoleCtrlHandler`](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/setconsolectrlhandler) — Paul Sanders, Sep 27 '20 at 22:55

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 27 '20 at 22:56

Use SetConsoleCtrlHandler() to installer a handler that looks for the CTRL_CLOSE_EVENT event:

A signal that the system sends to all processes attached to a console when the user closes the console (either by clicking Close on the console window's window menu, or by clicking the End Task button command from Task Manager).

How could I understand that user pressed X button on cmd window?

1 Answers1