Re: Multiple documents interfaces

[Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 13:07, Tor-björn Claesson wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm writing, using perl2-gtk, a clone of the program manager from windows 3.1, and to do this I
> need to use a multiple documents interface.
> While googling I have found a number of sources claiming that Gtk2 doesn't support MDI-windows, so
> I will have to write something that does.
> Since I'm new to GUI-programming, I would appreciate any suggestions about how to do this and
> pointers to relevant information.

Gtk2 has no MDI facilities. the gtk+ team doesn't like them (for pretty
valid reasons.) i don't really know what to tell you. it could probably
be done, but with a lot of work and it wouldn't ever be perfect.
basically you'd have to implement an MDI widget/architecture inside of
gtk+ and therefore you probably would want to do it at the C level. join
the gtk+ irc channel and ask the questions there. they'll probably be
able to tell you why there isn't such an arch. and if you're willing to
do it how to go about it. there's also the (slight) chance that the main
reason they don't have one is that no one wants to do it. if that's the
case maybe you can do it for all the world.

of course only my opinions.
-rm