{"id":32153,"date":"2006-02-24T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/02\/24\/why-cant-i-disable-the-cancel-button-in-a-wizard\/"},"modified":"2006-02-24T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T10:00:13","slug":"why-cant-i-disable-the-cancel-button-in-a-wizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060224-13\/?p=32153","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#039;t I disable the Cancel button in a wizard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <code>PropSheet_SetWizButtons<\/code> macro lets you manipulate many of the buttons on a wizard, but the Cancel button remains elusive. Why can&#8217;t you disable the Cancel button or the &#8220;X&#8221; button?\n Because our users tell us they don&#8217;t like it.\n Observation of users in our labs and interviews with them reveal that wizards that disable the Cancel button cause them stress and frustration. Put yourself in their shoes: You&#8217;ve started some operation, the wizard asks you a few questions, you answer them, and then, uh-oh, it <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/04\/26\/120193.aspx\"> asks a question you can&#8217;t answer<\/a>, or you realize that you don&#8217;t want to do it after all because the wizard told you that completing the task will have some undesired side-effects or because one of the steps is taking too long. You want to cancel out of the wizard. But the wizard won&#8217;t let you. &#8220;Ha-ha. Now I&#8217;m going to force you to do what I tell you! You&#8217;re trapped, I say, trapped!  Mwaaa-ha-ha-ha-ha!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Don&#8217;t do that to your users. It only upsets them. Let them cancel and live another day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PropSheet_SetWizButtons macro lets you manipulate many of the buttons on a wizard, but the Cancel button remains elusive. Why can&#8217;t you disable the Cancel button or the &#8220;X&#8221; button? Because our users tell us they don&#8217;t like it. Observation of users in our labs and interviews with them reveal that wizards that disable the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-32153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The PropSheet_SetWizButtons macro lets you manipulate many of the buttons on a wizard, but the Cancel button remains elusive. Why can&#8217;t you disable the Cancel button or the &#8220;X&#8221; button? Because our users tell us they don&#8217;t like it. Observation of users in our labs and interviews with them reveal that wizards that disable the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}