>  What do non-Windows programmers do to achieve that?

  Simply use multiple windows. Or use tab based dialogs, where every
profile is displayed inside a Tab.

Best,
Scuri


Em sáb., 8 de jan. de 2022 às 16:38, Kaz Foxsen <kaz.fox...@gmail.com>
escreveu:

> Do I even need MDI? I figured that the original programmer used it in
> order to allow the user to open multiple profiles at the same time and
> those different profiles could hold different information, but if I
> can make it work with the normal parenting functions, then that would
> be preferable. What do non-Windows programmers do to achieve that?
>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 7:31 AM Antonio Scuri <antonio.sc...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I don't know. MDI is very little used.
> >
> > PARENTDIALOG works very well for regular dialogs. I confirmed the
> minimize behavior here, just in case.
> >
> > But when involves MDI everything changes. This behavior is controlled by
> the system, IUP actually only configures parent and child settings.
> >
> > Best,
> > Scuri
> >
> >
> > Em sex., 7 de jan. de 2022 às 01:52, Kaz Foxsen <kaz.fox...@gmail.com>
> escreveu:
> >>
> >> I've read that setting the PARENTDIALOG attribute is supposed to make
> >> a child dialog minimize with the parent dialog, but can't get it to
> >> work.
> >>
> >> The app I'm working on has a main window featuring a canvas as an MDI
> >> Client. Whenever a user selects New File, a profile dialog is created.
> >> Using that profile (which is set as an MDI child), the user can click
> >> items to open various "module" dialogs to change settings. I set the
> >> module dialogs to have the profile dialog as a parent, but when I
> >> minimize the parent, the module doesn't minimize. If I don't set a
> >> parent, the module will disappear under the main window if I click the
> >> profile that spawned it.
> >>
> >> How can I fix this?
> >>
> >>
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