Re: Does exist a "Muilti windows widget" ???

[Michael Hill <mjh rdasys com>]

QT has a MDI widget.  It's called QWorkSpace.  I also agree that they make for a bad design and shouldn't be used.  But wanted to mention other GUI toolkits do have them.  I believe wxWindows has one to.?

Cheers,

Michael H.

On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 11:20, Michael L Torrie wrote: 
> There is no such beast in GTK to my knowledge.  And for good reason
> too.  It's a usability nightmare.  The only GUI that has it is MS
> Windows, and less and less programs use it because it's just so bad from
> the user's perspective.  The correct way to implement the functionality
> of MDI without the mess of windows within windows is to use the tabbed
> document interface, or just separate toplevel windows.
>
> As an example of this, MS Word used to have a MDI interface.  However it
> proved to be such a bad design that from Word 2000 on up (to XP
> currently), there is *no* MDI interface used.  Instead each document
> lives in it's own complete Word window (toplevel).  A very sensible
> decision.
>
> Personally, I like the tabbed interface the programs like Galeon,
> Kdevelop and others use.
>
> Michael
>
>
> On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 01:35, lorenzo zampese electrolux it wrote:
> > Does exist any widget like "MDI" of MS-Windows, with a toplevel window
> > (parent) and attached some windows
> > (children) which lie inside the toplevel ?
> > 
> > Thank you :)
> > 
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