Catching dijit's Dialog close event

I tend to use dijit Dialogs whenever I need the user to make a decision before proceeding with any other actions. They're especially useful for server error conditions and asking the user how they'd like to react to something like an API failure.

However, popping up dialogs can be annoying to users. I know I'm guilty of scanning dialog text and just hitting the 'x' button and ignoring the message. There are two ways you can prevent the user from doing this with dojo.

1. The most obvious solution: Hide the 'x' button. This is easily done with some simple CSS:

#myDialog .dijitDialogTitleBar .dijitDialogCloseIcon {
    display:none;
}

The one drawback to this is that the user can hit the escape button and that'll close the dialog.

2. Attach the following two callbacks to your dialog:

this._userClosedDialogHandle = dojo.connect(dijit.byId("myDialog"), "hide", this, "_handleCloseDialog");
this._userClosedEscDialogHandle = dojo.connect(dijit.byId("myDialog").containerNode, 'onkeypress', function (evt) {
 key = evt.keyCode;
 if(key == dojo.keys.ESCAPE) {
  this._handleCloseDialog();
 }
});

The one caveat with this method is that you need to disconnect both handles in the _handleCloseDialog method. Otherwise, you'll find yourself in an infinite loop pretty quickly.