Re: [platform-swt-dev] SWT shells, windows, and composites

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Note that all he's asking for is something
"MDI-like", not that they actually have to be shells. So to implement
this, he could roll his own "container" composites (with custom
drag/resize handles) and have them all be parented inside the shell.

McQ.

Carolyn MacLeod/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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This is called MDI or "Multiple Document Interface".

Please read the following bug report, and add yourself as a CC:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=29891

For future info, the usual place to ask user questions is the SWT 
newsgroup:
news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.platform.swt

Welcome to SWT!
Carolyn




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Is it currently possible to develop a standalone SWT application that 
consists of a master widget shell and many smaller free 'shell-like' 
windows all contained inside the display of this master so that the OS
only cares about the master window and the child windows are completely
managed within the master shell? 
 
Think how Adobe Photoshop on Windows manages all the open images the user
is working with.  The user is free to minimize, maximize, resize,
all 
these image windows within the context of the single application so that
there aren't a million little application windows listed on their Taskbar.

 
At first I thought I could make a new Shell the free moving child of a
scrolled Composite widget, but it looks like the javadoc says Shell()s
only come from Displays or other Shells.
 
Is there another way of building the interface I described above?  I'm
very new to SWT and am not familiar with all the widgets and their 
capabilities.
 
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