Re: MDI (not winMDI) frameworks ... again

[Tim <jpyobjc2004 yahoo ca>]

Brion Vibber wrote:

> Tim wrote:
>
> > In the meantime, developers are left hanging with putting out apps 
> > that have just way too many windows. I've used Gimp on my OSX box and 
> > it totally sucks having to first clicking the window to get focus 
> > before being able to click the item. If the app ran on a MDI 
> > framework, this would not be necessary.
>
>
> Incidentally, you can make Apple's quartzwm behave in a more sensible 
> manner. At a terminal:
>
>   defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_click_through -bool true
Cool! I saw that Code Tek had a hack for this but having a lower level 
hack is for sure the way to go.

Regarding MDI, I still see many apps that are being developed that don't 
have MDI support and they really need it. A good example is BBEdit on 
Mac. I don't use this app because it's just too hard to manage the 
multiple sources I have open at one time to do my coding. Thankfully 
X-Code now supports languages that I hack in like JavaScript.

Hopefully we can see such MDI frameworks coming to the GTK core level or 
even on OSX some day.

Thanks for the info.

Tim