Same window name

[shimrod]

Hi,

I am new to Cegui, and I encounter some problems.
In my game, I use a layout to show a properties screen for an item clicked. This little window has a root window called PropMenu.
When this windows is closed, I destroy it through windowmanager->destroyWindow().

When player clicks on another item, it reloads the window, and then I got an error because the name "PropMenu" is already use:

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GUILayout_xmlHandler::startElement - layout loading has been aborted since Window named 'Root' already exists.

Even I can find a workaround (show/hide the window), the question is still here, if I wish to have multiple properties window from the same layout to be open at the same time.

Can you guide me?

Thank you

[Kulik]

In 0.7, each window has to have a unique (system-wide) name. You can load multiple layouts by using the prefix functionality (see WindowManager::loadWindowLayout). You can also only load the layout once and then clone it as many times as needed (see Window::clone).

In 0.8, windows can have the same names as long as they are not added to the same parent. This was a change I proposed and even though it might infuriate a lot of people, I think it's a good change that will ease all of these situations.

[shimrod]

Clone function is a pretty good idea... Thank you.

In fact my problem, didn't come from CEgui, sorry for trouble...