How to disable a shell without disabling minimize, maximize and close button in SWT

Question

I'm trying to disable a shell in SWT using

sell.setEnabled(false);

this is working fine, I want to prevent user from doing actions, but in the same time I want to allow him to minimize the shell. The problem is that setEnabled(false) will disable the entire shell.

Have you please an idea about that?

Answer 1

I guess you want to disable the content of the shell. Then why don't you just add a container (Composite) as the main content in the shell and disable/enable it as desired?. That won't affect the shell and, therefore, the minimize button will keep working.

final Shell shell = new Shell(display);
shell.setLayout(new FillLayout());
final Composite composite = new Composite(shell, SWT.NONE);
composite.setEnabled(false);

Answer 2

Instead of disabling the Shell itself, disable the controls that it contains. Something like this:

Control[] children = shell.getChildren();
for( Control control : children ) {
  control.setEnabled( false );
}