GLUTDESTROYWINDOW(3)

💅 GLUTDESTROYWINDOW — ok so we're destroying a window (3)

bestie. you're in GLUTDESTROYWINDOW(3) and honestly? it's giving cleanup era. this is the OpenGLUT manual, window section, and we're about to yeet a window into the void. respectfully. 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <openglut.h>

void
glutDestroyWindow(int windowID);

like yes that's the whole thing, short king. one function, one int, zero drama (until the undefined behaviour, but we'll get there 😭).

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🌸 PARAMETERS 🌸

• windowID — the window identifier. that's the little handle for the window you're about to say bye to. hold onto it, because you will NOT be getting it back (more on that in a sec, and it's lowkey important).

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: you call this function, and your window is done. finished. graduated. the ONLY further event that may be delivered for your window after you invoke this is the event for its destruction. that's it. that's the last one. everything else? discarded. not your problem anymore, not the window's problem anymore. all other events should be discarded. periodt. 💀

⚠️ and now the serious part, bestie, because this is the part where people get hurt. once a window has been destroyed, further attempts to use the window named by windowID are undefined. like, undefined undefined. we do not know what happens. nobody knows what happens. the vibes are not immaculate here.

now, OpenGLUT is generally a sweetheart about this — it generally tries to be sensible, and it should not recycle the dead windowID. so you're not gonna accidentally get handed the same ID for a shiny new window and start talking to the wrong ghost. but don't push your luck, okay?

the way to think about it: treat a destroyed window much like a pointer to deallocated memory. you know how you free a pointer and then you just... don't touch it? same energy. don't use it. don't pass it around. don't call it back. it's gone, girl. 🌈

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• glutCreateWindow(3) — the function that STARTED all this. read it, love it, know it. ✨

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🎀 a lil sign-off 🎀

this page is rocking an UNDATED date stamp and the source/version line is UNTITLED() — yeah, we know, no title, no date, it's mysterious main character energy and we're obsessed with it honestly 🧚💜

now go forth and destroy responsibly. no cap. 💖