Hide/Show window

[OsakiTsukiko]

Is there a way to hide/show window repeatedly? i know there is setHide but from what I understand that is a flag set before first show. There is also close which from my understanding should not free anything (unlike destroy) but for me it crashes the app (zig).

[AlbertShown]

For now, there is no API that do that, but in Windows, you can use Win32 APIs to manipulate window, something like this:

// Show a WebView window
webui_show_wv(win, "index.html"); 

// Get the HWND of the WebView window
HWND hwnd = webui_win32_get_hwnd(myWindow); 

// Do anything with HWND using Win32 APIs . . .

[OsakiTsukiko]

is there an alternative for linux?

[AlbertShown]

There is also close which from my understanding should not free anything (unlike destroy) but for me it crashes the app (zig)

Yes, setHide() is before showing window, hiding a window while it's still running repeatedly is a feature that we can add later to WebUI, you can use Win32 APIs like I told you before, but about crashing it should not crash. Can you please open an issue and share the crash log?

[OsakiTsukiko]

Does close free the window data?

[AlbertShown]

No, it stays available, only destroy() completely free window's resources, but as I said, the hiding in the sense window running but not visible is a feature to be added to webui later.

[OsakiTsukiko]

But until then could closing and showing it achieve the same thing?

[AlbertShown]

Yes, but if you have let's say an input that have some text set by user when window was shown, that text will be disappeared when you re-open window. Basically, think of your UI like a regular website - refresh page.