Do Windows Actually Close?

[UrsaTeddy]

Greetings,

I have been playing around with opening/closing windows based on their type and I have come across a behaviour that would lead me to think that windows are not really closed.

I have an extension that simply closes windows based on their type (or all of them). Based on a boolean parameter they are either reopened or not.

So I opened 6 windows.

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I then proceed to close all of those windows except for one. This is performed with the X on each window.

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I then run my extension that will close all windows that are allowed to be close (so no chat, no menus, no desktop items).

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I now reopen the story window and run the extension to close and then reopen all allowed windows.

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You will see in the image that all the other windows that were opened previously (except the Assets window) are reopened.

My code ...


function Refresh_Windows_By_Type(of_types, reopen_windows)
if reopen_windows == nil then reopen_windows = true end

local window_list = Interface.getWindows(true) <--- NOTE I AM ASKING ONLY FOR VISIBLE WINDOWS
for k,v in pairs(window_list)
do
local window_type = v.getClass()

if not TABLE.Is_In_Table(WM_EXCLUDE, window_type) <--- ensures the window is allowed to be closed
then
if TABLE.Is_Empty_Table(of_types) or TABLE.Is_In_Table(of_types, window_type)
then
local db_node = v.getDatabaseNode() or ""
local v_wx, v_wy = v.getPosition()
v.close()
if reopen_windows
then
window = Interface.openWindow(window_type, db_node)
window.setPosition(v_wx, v_wy)
end
end
end
end
end


So either the windows are not truly being closed and only hidden from view - hence the issue with getWindows(true) - or I am missing something here.

All help would be appreciated.
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[jharp]

I can confirm that Interface.getWindows() seems to return windows that are no longer in existance. The MaInspector uses that interface and it now shows items that no longer exist.
Edit: I thought this a new bug but it seems this is a fix to speed up index windows (class: masterindex). It does not happen with id-* windows. I believe Moon was making larger indexes faster and less jumpy so this likely has something to do with that work. I suggest you add it to your ignore list or work around it somehow.

Jason

[UrsaTeddy]

Unfortunately I need the ability to open/close masterindex windows ... I have created two further sets of code that can target a node based window and a window by title ... so for now this should get me over this issue.

Thanks for the confirmation - I thought I was going insane with what was happening.

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[Moon Wizard]

The masterindex windows are specifically not designed to be closed, but to be hidden instead. The reason is because they are very resource-intensive to build when first opened.

Regards,
JPG

[UrsaTeddy]

Okay that is more information ... as I stated I wrote extra code to allow me to target windows even more specifically instead of just targeting "all windows".

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