Quit-button executables

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Hey,

I want to quit an executabel with an internal “Button” - like a”quit” in a menue of a game or similar applications.

The hitbox is clear but the order to close the Application-Window without Alt-F4 or the window-close-X ….not.

Node recommendations?

Thx

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Hey,

You can get the PID of the current process and kill it with the Kill node :

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You can paste the following XML snippet in your patch to get these nodes :

Snippet 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<Patch xmlns:p="property" xmlns:r="reflection" Id="EteILvY9BHUNwzcom7EtgG" MergeId="5">
  <Canvas Id="MfGXMf8qKhKM8fykccEmCi" MergeId="4" CanvasType="Group">
    <Node Bounds="448,220,31,19" Id="KY9birUie1nPcH768j6b07">
      <p:NodeReference LastCategoryFullName="System.Application" LastDependency="VL.CoreLib.vl">
        <Choice Kind="NodeFlag" Name="Node" Fixed="true" />
        <CategoryReference Kind="Category" Name="Application" NeedsToBeDirectParent="true">
          <p:OuterCategoryReference Kind="Category" Name="System" NeedsToBeDirectParent="true" />
        </CategoryReference>
        <Choice Kind="ProcessAppFlag" Name="PID" />
      </p:NodeReference>
      <Pin Id="IYm4VL8zZYOL5rbgZ5ol6y" Name="Id" Kind="OutputPin" />
      <Pin Id="UJy4MYHLSYULXrtiVWQrss" Name="Node Context" Kind="InputPin" IsHidden="true" />
    </Node>
    <Node Bounds="448,290,31,19" Id="BzIM2FxMDPFLMQmSddpz7p">
      <p:NodeReference LastCategoryFullName="System" LastDependency="VL.CoreLib.vl">
        <Choice Kind="NodeFlag" Name="Node" Fixed="true" />
        <Choice Kind="OperationCallFlag" Name="Kill" />
      </p:NodeReference>
      <Pin Id="JnbPAZx3glbLGOruq6cuzw" Name="Process Id" Kind="InputPin" />
      <Pin Id="MB0TXkM59CeN2Jve78qhud" Name="Execute" Kind="InputPin" />
    </Node>
    <Pad Id="QgqrqpgJbeFMpcDClmJMUy" Comment="Execute" Bounds="476,270,35,15" ShowValueBox="true" isIOBox="true" Value="False">
      <p:TypeAnnotation LastCategoryFullName="Primitive" LastDependency="VL.CoreLib.vl">
        <Choice Kind="ImmutableTypeFlag" Name="Boolean" />
      </p:TypeAnnotation>
      <p:ValueBoxSettings>
        <p:buttonmode p:Assembly="VL.UI.Forms" p:Type="VL.HDE.PatchEditor.Editors.ButtonModeEnum">Bang</p:buttonmode>
      </p:ValueBoxSettings>
    </Pad>
  </Canvas>
  <Link Id="Nm0YP0DQ9vAO8OqOfzG6XD" Ids="QgqrqpgJbeFMpcDClmJMUy,MB0TXkM59CeN2Jve78qhud" />
  <Link Id="LERu8tjQI6HMtgNC29WzX1" Ids="IYm4VL8zZYOL5rbgZ5ol6y,JnbPAZx3glbLGOruq6cuzw" />
  <NugetDependency Id="Njx0oi6X9bfNM0gKz474Qr" Location="VL.CoreLib" Version="2025.7.1-0132-g535d266972" />
</Patch>
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Exactly that! Thank you sebescudie.