Bug 78253 - May SWT support MDI for the Windows Platform in lately version?
Summary: May SWT support MDI for the Windows Platform in lately version?
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 29891
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 3.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Steve Northover CLA
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Reported: 2004-11-09 22:07 EST by laiqiguang CLA
Modified: 2004-11-10 17:19 EST (History)
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Description laiqiguang CLA 2004-11-09 22:07:38 EST 
I think MDI(Muti-Document Interface) is the most popular windows style for many 
applications, such as Microsoft Office, SAP R/3,Adobe PhotoShop etc. It was 
really awful when I found out the truth(the class 
org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Decorations shows the cloven foot). It might be 
difficult to do well for the reason of operating system independent. So can we 
fix the defect on Windows first? We may write a new class names “Sheet” acting 
as sub window of a shell. It will be a good news to many developers If the 
problem can be solved.
Comment 1 Steve Northover CLA 2004-11-10 17:19:43 EST 
I'm really, really sorry about this but MDI is a ton of work and Eclipse and 
SWT just don't have the manpower or the mandate to do this work right now.  
You could use JFace and the "MDI-like" code that Eclipse uses to handle 
multiple internal windows.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29891 ***