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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 :) > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > gtk-list mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
