X Version 11 (Release 5)
XDestroyWindow(XS)
XDestroyWindow --
destroy windows
Syntax
XDestroyWindow(display, w)
Display *display;
Window w;
XDestroySubwindows(display, w)
Display *display;
Window w;
Arguments
display-
Specifies the connection to the X server.
w-
Specifies the window.
Description
The XDestroyWindow function destroys the specified
window as well as all of its subwindows and causes the X server
to generate a DestroyNotify event for each window.
The window should never be referenced again.
If the window specified by the w argument is mapped,
it is unmapped automatically.
The ordering of the DestroyNotify
events is such that for any given window being destroyed,
DestroyNotify is generated on any inferiors of
the window before being generated on the window itself.
The ordering among siblings and across subhierarchies is
not otherwise constrained.
If the window you specified is a root window, no windows are destroyed.
Destroying a mapped window will generate Expose events
on other windows that were obscured by the window being destroyed.
XDestroyWindow can generate a ``BadWindow'' error.
The XDestroySubwindows function destroys all
inferior windows of the specified window,
in bottom-to-top stacking order.
It causes the X server to generate a DestroyNotify
event for each window.
If any mapped subwindows were actually destroyed,
XDestroySubwindows causes the X server to generate
Expose events on the specified window.
This is much more efficient than deleting many windows one
at a time because much of the work need be performed only
once for all of the windows, rather than for each window.
The subwindows should never be referenced again.
XDestroySubwindows can generate a ``BadWindow'' error.
Diagnostics
``BadWindow''-
A value for a Window argument does not name a defined Window.
See also
XChangeWindowAttributes(XS),
XConfigureWindow(XS),
XCreateWindow(XS),
XMapWindow(XS),
XRaiseWindow(XS),
XUnmapWindow(XS)
Xlib - C Language X Interface
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