unloading the gocui toolkit works

Signed-off-by: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>

README-goreadme.md

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ attempts to locate the .so file
 
 `func ShowDebugValues()`
 
-### func [StandardExit](/main.go#L153)
+### func [StandardExit](/main.go#L169)
 
 `func StandardExit()`
 
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ var Config GuiConfig
 The Node is a binary tree. This is how all GUI elements are stored
 simply the name and the size of whatever GUI element exists
 
-#### func [New](/main.go#L126)
+#### func [New](/main.go#L142)
 
 `func New() *Node`
 

main.go

@@ -112,13 +112,29 @@ func (n *Node) doUserEvent(a toolkit.Action) {
 }
 
 func (n *Node) LoadToolkit(name string) *Node {
-	log(logInfo, "Start() Main(f) for name =", name)
+	log(logInfo, "LoadToolkit() for name =", name)
 	if (FindPlugin(name) == nil) {
 		return n
 	}
 	return n
 }
 
+func (n *Node) CloseToolkit(name string) bool {
+	log(logInfo, "CloseToolkit() for name =", name)
+	for _, aplug := range allPlugins {
+		log(debugGui, "CloseToolkit() found", aplug.name)
+		if (aplug.name == name) {
+			log(debugNow, "CloseToolkit() sending close", name)
+			var a toolkit.Action
+			a.ActionType = toolkit.CloseToolkit
+			aplug.pluginChan <- a
+			sleep(.5)
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
 // There should only be one of these per application
 // This is due to restrictions by being cross platform
 // some toolkit's on some operating systems don't support more than one

toolkit/gocui/main.go

@@ -83,5 +83,6 @@ func main() {
 	log("This is a test log entry")
 
 	MouseMain()
+	log(true, "MouseMain() closed")
 	me.baseGui.Close()
 }

toolkit/gocui/plugin.go

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"os"
 	// if you include more than just this import
 	// then your plugin might be doing something un-ideal (just a guess from 2023/02/27)
 	"git.wit.org/wit/gui/toolkit"
@@ -38,6 +39,11 @@ func action(a *toolkit.Action) {
 		w.AddText(a.S)
 	case toolkit.Move:
 		log(logNow, "attempt to move() =", a.ActionType, a.WidgetType, a.Name)
+	case toolkit.CloseToolkit:
+		log(logNow, "attempting to close the plugin and release stdout and stderr")
+		me.baseGui.Close()
+		// defer outf.Close()
+		setOutput(os.Stdout)
 	default:
 		log(logError, "action() Unknown =", a.ActionType, a.WidgetType, a.Name)
 	}

toolkit/widget.go

@@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ const (
 
 const (
 	Add ActionType = iota
-	User // the user did something (mouse, keyboard, etc)
 	Delete
 	Get
 	Set
@@ -127,7 +126,9 @@ const (
 	Append
 	Move
 	Dump
-	Quit
+	User // the user did something (mouse, keyboard, etc)
+	InitToolkit // initializes the toolkit
+	CloseToolkit // closes the toolkit
 )
 
 func (s WidgetType) String() string {