closeing a window?

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Mr_Plant (Posted 2003) [#1]

I have created a window to ask the user for some options. I now want to close this window and enter a different full screen graphics mode.. How do i remove the window - I can minimise it but is there not a way to close it completely??

Simon S (Posted 2003) [#2]

FreeGadget works, though I found no reference to that in the manual.

soja (Posted 2003) [#3]

That's the way I do it...

Mark Tiffany (Posted 2003) [#4]

Yup, FreeGadget will do the job perfectly. You see, the trick remembering that EVERYTHING is a gadget, INCLUDING windows. ;-) So all those lovely *Gadget* commands (like SetGadgetText) will work on windows too...and in fact on pretty much any gadget...

Pudsy (Posted 2003) [#5]

Me wonders what FreeGadget Desktop() does ;)

Mr_Plant (Posted 2003) [#6]

Thanks!

Simon S (Posted 2003) [#7]

Hmm, on a related topic, it seems HideGadget also closes a window permanently. Any call to showgadget afterwards just loses the focus of the current window and nothing appears. Is this correct behaviour? Doesn't seem like it.

Simon S (Posted 2003) [#8]

Studied it some more. Curiously I've no problem hiding the first window I create, and any that belong to it. However any other window I create independant of the others is giving problems. More experimenting I think.

Kevin_ (Posted 2003) [#9]

Try using setgadgetshape and move it off screen instead. Get the desktop height first then set the Windows Y position to the desktop Y position then just move it into place when you want it. This is a solution I use and seems to work well. Regards