I agree that this is a valuable thing worth thinking about. I opened a ticket on it here <https://github.com/NetLogo/NetLogo/issues/681>, and I wrote some comments of my own about it there. Feel free to, either here or on the GitHub ticket, add to what I said.
On Monday, January 5, 2015 11:37:27 AM UTC-6, Alan Isaac wrote: > > One can hide the Graphics Window by setting size width to a negative > number, but this is undocumented and clunky. Please consider the following. > > 1. A `View` menu with a hide/show switch for the Graphics Window. (Some > `Tools`, such as Hiding/showing the Command Center, could be moved there as > well.) > > 2. A Boolean primitive to accomplish this (e.g., > `display-graphics-window`). This should be usable in the `startup` > procedure. > > More radically, since some models do not need a graphics window, one might > introduce a Boolean primitive to allow disabling its creation (in the > startup procedure). > > Thank you, > Alan Isaac > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "netlogo-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to netlogo-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.