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Posted: **Thu Aug 20, 2020 4:47 am**

becoming spectator using

player.character.destroy() -- or
player.set_controller{type = defines.controllers.spectator} --or other ghost modes...
player.character.die() -- or just killed by something and lose body

closes built-in guis and makes "player.opened = nil" but not fires event "on_gui_closed".

So, CustomGuiElements relying on "on_gui_closed" event still covers screen and doesn't answer to escape key after some situations.

is this intended?

Posted: **Thu Aug 20, 2020 3:10 pm**

It's more "how it has to work". Invalidating the controller invalidates the gui target and so it can't track that it was closed to fire the event.

The same thing happens when a player gets disconnected, or killed, or any other number of ways a players controller becomes invalid to use.

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[1.0.0] becoming spectator makes "player.opened=nil" but not fires "on_gui_closed" event

[1.0.0] becoming spectator makes "player.opened=nil" but not fires "on_gui_closed" event

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