Close window ?

[Pascalio]

Is there any way to programmatically close the window ?
I'm evaluating the possibility to write a daemon that pops a window asking a question, then when the question is answered, the window must disappear without the user clicking the close button.

[hecrj]

There is currently no way to do this.

It should be easily implementable (maybe as part of Mode?), but we need to keep in mind that Application::run will never return. Therefore, closing the main window will exit the whole process.

Opening and closing windows from the same process is something that we should explore when tackling #27.

[Friz64]

While not being the best solution, i think it might be possible to currently do this by taking control of the event loop yourself. The integration example might be a good starting point, you would just need to remove the scene code from the example. You would then just call Window::set_visible to show and hide your dialog.

[Pascalio]

While not being the best solution, i think it might be possible to currently do this by taking control of the event loop yourself. The integration example might be a good starting point, you would just need to remove the scene code from the example. You would then just call Window::set_visible to show and hide your dialog.

Thank you. Yes, this seems to be a good way to do it by now. Or to *set control_flow to ControlFlow::Exit, to end the application on certain user interactions.

[Pascalio]

There is currently no way to do this.

It should be easily implementable (maybe as part of Mode?), but we need to keep in mind that Application::run will never return. Therefore, closing the main window will exit the whole process.

Do you mean that Mode should have a variant like Unmapped or Invisible ? And we can just set this mode from the running code?

Opening and closing windows from the same process is something that we should explore when tackling #27.

[hecrj]

This issue is somewhat related to #170. Maybe we should tackle both of them together.

Do you mean that Mode should have a variant like Unmapped or Invisible ?

Yes, I think an Invisible variant could work nicely.

And we can just set this mode from the running code?

The mode can be currently set in Application::mode.

[ardijanr]

Currently this works, for killing the entire process thereby closing the open window. But looks your asking for something to close a spawned window, idk if those are spawned as their own process. If they are not then this would not work.

std::process::exit()