GLUTHIDEWINDOW(3)

✨ GLUTHIDEWINDOW(3) ✨

okay so bestie, this is a page from the OpenGLUT manual, specifically the window section of the library. And yes, it's literally about making a window go poof (but, like, the polite reversible kind of poof) 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

glutHideWindow — make the current window hidden 🙈

🎀 LIBRARY 🎀

OpenGLUT - window

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <openglut.h>

void
glutHideWindow(void);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so here's the tea ☕ — even if a window is "open", that does not mean it has to be visible. Wild, right? A window can be open and just… not be on your screen. Living its little hidden life. iconic ✨

And ngl, sometimes hiding a window is way more convenient than closing it. Why? Because if you close it and then wanna bring it back later, you're gonna want it at the same location and same size, and that's a whole thing. Not it. 😭

Also, like, redefining all of the OpenGLUT features of a window and adding its window id to your tracking when you re-open it? highkey bothersome. So much admin. So unnecessary.

So instead of destroying the window, you can simply ask for it to be hidden. That's it. That's the move. 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• glutShowWindow(3) — the comeback arc, when you're ready to un-hide ✨

and that's the whole page, bestie — this one's UNDATED and the title slot is just UNTITLED(), so we're keeping it mysterious 🌈 stay hidden, stay slay, mwah 💜