Creating a Window as Hidden, but not Hiding

QuickGUI::Window* window = this->mSheet->createWindow(name, rect, texture); /* this works fine */
window->hide();

The window is still created as visible...the variable is not a member of the class its created in, it is inside an if statement, and the window is created fine...just not hidden.

Are you sure you are not showing it somewhere else? Are you calling mSheet->show somewhere after that code? I may not have included a the change to not show certain child widgets. The demo creates and hides a window, so the lines you posted have been working in all versions of QuickGUI.