Some serious issues with windows (MacOS X, 0.8.4)

[thenitai]

Been testing windows today all day and had a lot of crashes.

Window called from a submenu
I created a submenu that opens one of my pages. Code is:

var new_win = gui.Window.open('about.html', {
position: 'center',
width: 500,
height: 400,
focus: true,
resizable: false,
toolbar: false
});
new_win.on('close', function() {
this.hide();
this.close(true);
});

On the about page I have a link as simple as: window.close();

What happens is that the window closes, but the next time I open the window again node-webkit completely crashes. I've tried various different ways, but nothing seems to work.

I then went ahead and added the below function within the about page itself and calling this function with the "close" link:

function closeAbout(){
var gui = require('nw.gui');
var win = gui.Window.get();
win.hide();
}

While this helps, it only helps with a frameless window. As soon as the user would click on the close icon or uses a shortcut to close the window, note-webkit will crash on re-opening the window. In short, the close(true) argument seems to be the culprit here.

Main Window being closed with cmd+w
The second issue is that, on the Mac, you can use the shortcut "cmd + w" to close any window. Unfortunately, if I close a popup window with cmd+w I also have the option to close the main window. Once done, you loose the possibility to quit the application in general (the quit option is greyed out).

[jamesmortensen]

Is it possible to edit the title and say that the issue is crashes and not be vague about what the issue is? I had to click the link to see what it's really about, and that sort of defeats the purpose of having a high-level issue list.

With that said, I was experiencing some crashes a few days ago and saw some information in the console logs, in the terminal. My crashing issues seemed to go away on their own, but you might consider including those as well here on this ticket.

Also, I haven't played around with this, but you can obtain and examine crash dumps: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/Crash-dump Hope this helps.

[tommoor]

Closing as no activity in 12 months, please reopen if you are still experiencing this issue.