How to close a trading window

[silentdiver]

I'm putting forth this contender for the 'Most basic/obvious/stupid question so far this year' award

Try as I might, I can't work out how to close a market trading window, or in UI terms, to close a child window in the MDI that displays a particular market with tabs One-click, Ladder etc.

Say I have several markets loaded (i.e. there are several entries shown under the 'File' menu with shortcuts Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2 etc) and am looking at, say, the one-click tab of one of them and I want that market to go away, for that pane to close, how can I do that ?

I've been scouring the UI for a little 'x' or a 'Close Market Pane/Window/whatever' menu item or similar but can't see anything anywhere that just makes that particular market display close.

No doubt it's something blindingly obvious and I'm just being dim and somehow not spotting it, apologies in advance for that ! - but it's been puzzling me since yesterday.

[Fugazi]

I've been a user over a year and still get confused why I can't close a ladder screen without closing the whole of BA

But also, I never read the manual properly. So thats on me lol

[silentdiver]

I'm glad it's not just me !

I'm experimenting with coding opening up markets via the API and have... well, I don't know how many open, it only shows the last 10 in the File menu, one of them is open 4 times at least, another 3 times at least and I guess all of them are refreshing... and I can't close any of them other than, as you say, closing the application completely.

Surely there must be a way to do it, can't find anything in the user guide or in this forum. It should be an obvious thing like an X in the top right where the popout/popback button is.

There should be a standard Windows menu where they can be closed, and the shortcuts to the open panes should be in that Windows menu, not the File menu.

I mean, it's such a mature and comprehensive product, clearly a vast amount of time has gone into it's creation, how can something so utterly fundamental be missing ?

[jamesedwards]

I don't think you can close the main one-click/ladder window etc if they are embedded into the main Bet Angel trading area.

You can open and close one-click and ladder windows that aren't embedded in the main screen. Click the outwards pointing arrow in the top right of the window to disembed it.

[silentdiver]

You can open and close one-click and ladder windows that aren't embedded in the main screen.

Yep, if I open them as new/separate windows I can then close them with the normal windows X button, but if they start life as a child within the main window, you can pop them out and back in but can't actually close them - the close window on hitting the X is intercepted and the pane is plonked back in the main form if that's where it came from.

Now I look closer, they're not actually traditional MDI child windows, more like panes that are displayed and hidden as required, and when the same one is shown 5 times under the file menu there is only actually one of them, it's just shown 5 times in the list, which is a shame, it'd be nice if it checked for a duplicate when adding to the list and just showed each market once.

I think best I just always open markets as separate windows in their own right but the default generally seems to be to open them where they can't be closed from, am still hoping somebody will come along and point out the really obvious way to do it that's been eluding me though !

[Dabbla]

The file tab does not show open markets; it shows previously opened markets. They won’t be updating.

[Euler]

You can undock screens and spawn new ones with a right click on a market tree. So that may be the solution you are looking for.

[silentdiver]

The file tab does not show open markets; it shows previously opened markets. They won’t be updating.

Thanks, yep, i worked out that the list is essentially a history of what you opened, rather than what is open now so as you say, they won't be updating (which was a concern) - only the one actually displayed is unless I untick the checkbox, but it'd be nice to be able to make the market display go away completely.

[silentdiver]

You can undock screens and spawn new ones with a right click on a market tree. So that may be the solution you are looking for.

Hi, not really but thanks for replying - I'm after closing a market pane/window that is open in the main window (or temporarily undocked/popped out to a separate window), not moving it around, docking or undocking it, just making it go away - it will stay in the list in guardian, fine, there's a button to remove markets from there if I want.

It's not a big problem since as Dabbla pointed out above, only the currently displaying one is updating, but I'd just like to be able to have a clean sheet when not looking at any markets - like having a word processor open with no documents loaded when you're not working on any documents - and closing the current market seems such a basic function that I assumed I was just being dim and not spotting how to do it.

My solution is to never open them in the main window, always use 'new' entirely separate windows that do close when you hit the big X in the top right corner - I'm opening them via the API anyway so it's no problem to tell it to do it that way all the time.