Is there a way to send a "Close" event to Window?

[gasim]

I want to send a "close" event to sf::Window from an external source. Is that possible?

[Nexus]

No. But it's not necessary either. Just call the function that normally reacts to your Closed event.

[Laurent]

Why do you want to do that?

[gasim]

I want to keep Input separate from Window. If I press Escape an event I assigned gets send (for example "closeWindow"), then the GraphicsSystem gets the event and changes the status of the Event Object. I guess I am going to call the quit function straight up.

[eXpl0it3r]

Implement your own message bus, SFML's event system is not built for that.
See Tank's GDD article on Message Bus for some details.

[Nexus]

Why would you need a Closed event for that?

Usually, your input system has a custom event type with high-level descriptions of the events, e.g. "quit". Now, when a Closed event or a KeyPressed event (with the key being Escape) is polled by SFML, you trigger the custom "quit" event and dispatch it to the other modules. These can then react individually.

In the case of quitting, it will often be enough to stop the game loop.

[gasim]

This whole thing started with me trying to figure out how to keep input and window separately. Is there a way to receive the current event from mWindow to process and dispatch the needed events to the window system to close?

[eXpl0it3r]

Input randomInputObject;
sf::RenderWindow window({600, 800}, "Hello World");

while(window.isOpen())
{
    sf::Event event;
    while(window.pollEvent(event))
    {
        randomInputObject.processEvent(event);
    }
    window.clear();
    window.display();
}

Hard to tell what you really want to do, but you can pass around event objects.