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As the title suggests, is there a way of closing a window using script??
I am opening a window by using the GotoPage() command but am having to close it using action 'Close the window <WINDOWNAME>'
I note that there is a View command but cannot seem to get it to work.
Anyone got any good ideas
Thanks in anticipation

If you have only one window open then you could do the following. What I did was I have a Chapter opening in another window. You did not specify whether this was an open Opus window or some other type of window. Then I have a button in the main window, but I suppose you could put it anywhere, that has the following script action tied to it.

var view = GetViewAt(1);
view.Close();

So I have two views. The main window would be 0 and the floating window would be 1. I get it and then close it.

Is this what you were looking to do? If not, could you provide a little more detail?

Excellent...just what I wanted.
I think where I was going wrong was I was using
var win=GetFirstView();
win.Close()

Thanks very much for the prompt reply.

bwpatric, What will the script be? if it is some other type of window(like that from another programm) that has to be checked whether it is opened or not and the window can be closed from OPUS Pub.

Thanks for great effort and assistance

If it's another window, you would probably have to use some windows manager software that could run command line and then run a command from Opus to the windows manager to close the other program window. I would do a search for freeware windows manager and command line and see what comes up, then see it this would work for you.

bwpatricThanks as I await the outcome of your search.

You can use this program at this link: http://www.esanu.name/programs/CloseApplication.html

to terminate an application. You would need to know the .exe name of the application (i.e., notepad.exe, wordpad.exe, psp.exe) but it will terminate it. You will see a DOS window popup briefly, so don't know whether that would work for you and don't know whether that would work on Vista.

You call it via a Launch file action.

Launch this file: closeapp.exe
with option/parameter... PROGRAMNAME.EXE terminate
This file will be found at this location: <SYSTEM_PUBLICATION_DIR>

The file is 230K

That's about the best I can do.

You can also check this thread (http://www.digitalgrapevine.info/viewtopic.php?p=10399) for additional help.