NativeWindow: Add destroy() method, allowing external module to dispose a NativeWindow instance

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/nativewindow/classes/javax/media/nativewindow/NativeWindow.java b/src/nativewindow/classes/javax/media/nativewindow/NativeWindow.java
index 6a588538d..cdac2de71 100644
--- a/src/nativewindow/classes/javax/media/nativewindow/NativeWindow.java
+++ b/src/nativewindow/classes/javax/media/nativewindow/NativeWindow.java
@@ -132,9 +132,17 @@ public interface NativeWindow {
   /** 
    * render all native window information invalid,
    * as if the native window was destroyed
+   *
+   * @see #destroy
    */
   public void invalidate();
 
+  /** 
+   * destroys the window and releases
+   * windowing related resources.
+   */
+  public void destroy();
+
   /**
    * Returns the window handle for this NativeWindow. <P>
    *