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

[Michael L Torrie <torriem chem byu edu>]

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 08:21, Michael Hill wrote:
> 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.?

wxWindows does indeed have one.  Fortunately on GTK+, this is
implemented by a tabbed interface.

For a little tidbit on MDI, see this part of the User Interface hall of
shame:

http://pixelcentric.net/x-shame/docs.html

Good little article on how some things can be done right.

Michael


> 
> 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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