RE: [platform-swt-dev] SDI in SWT possible ?

[Scott Stanchfield <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd go -1 as well. However, I've seen a huge split of folks who seem to love
MDI for some odd reason, and those who are quite rational and think it's as
twisted as Glory from BtVS. (If you have to ask, you wouldn't get it..
BtVS -- RIP 2003 ;)

Note: that was a bit of sarcasm there -- I think folks have a right to be
irrational, really I do ;)

-- Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ed Burnette
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 6:23 PM
> To: platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [platform-swt-dev] SDI in SWT possible ?
>
>
> FWIW, I'm not a big fan of MDI myself. In the MDI apps I've used,
> the icons keep getting lost under the MDI sub-windows so I don't
> find them useful. I like the way SWT paned/tabbed/folder windows
> work now, so if you were asking for votes on priorities of SWT
> development I'd vote -1 for MDI.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott Stanchfield [mailto:scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 5:47 PM
> > To: platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [platform-swt-dev] SDI in SWT possible ?
> >
> >
> > An MDI implementation of a UI consists of parent windows that
> > can control
> > several subwindows. The subwindows could be moved/resized
> > freely (as in
> > pixel-by-pixel dragging) within the parent window, and possibly
> > docked/maximized/minimized within the parent window. The child windows
> > typically could not be moved outside the parent window (if
> > they could be
> > moved out, the app is a hybrid of MDI and SDI...)
> >
> > Note that this might sound like Eclipse, but it's not.
> > Eclipse is an SDI app
> > with "pages" and "panes" inside windows. You cannot drag the
> > "panes" like
> > child windows.
> >
> > The parent window _could_ use tabs to organize "maximized"
> > subwindows, but
> > that's really a matter of desktop/window management...
> >
> > -- Scott
> >
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