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Close DOSBOX status windows?

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First post, by Gambit37

Posted on 2010-06-15, 23:46

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Everytime I run Glidos with DOSBOX dos emulation, Dosbox leaves a status window open after it's closed down. Do that a few times and your screen gets rather messy. How can I close those status windows automatically when Dosbox closes?

Reply 1 of 4, by DosFreak

Posted on 2010-06-16, 00:59

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DOSBox has an option to not open the status window.

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Reply 2 of 4, by wd

Posted on 2010-06-16, 06:03

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Why are they left open in the first place when using glidos?

Reply 3 of 4, by robertmo

Posted on 2010-06-16, 06:16

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if i recall correctly glidos is opening a third window and is actually hiding dosbox's two windows and after you quit glidos (or crush it, don't remember) they are still in the memory just not visible.
But sometimes the hiding fails (to one of them or both). hence your result i guess

Reply 4 of 4, by Glidos

Posted on 2010-06-16, 09:12

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I should add the option not to display the status window to the command line Glidos uses to start DOSBox. I'll stick that in sometime.

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