Hi SS, I'm not sure I am visualizing what you mean in the two options correctly. Setting aside parent issues, what would you envision that the interface would look like with two tasks open? Can you cobble a picture together that gets the point across?
regards, Larry On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Sunburned Surveyor < sunburned.surve...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe that OpenJUMP was originally designed with an "MDI" > (Multiple Document Interface) architecture, where each "document" was > a single Task. I was curious if our porgrammers and users felt that > this was a useful concept that we should adhere to. Are supplemental > views and dialogs (like the Output Window and the Feature Info Dialog) > task centric? > > Does it ever make sense to display a window or dialog that isn't > related to information in the active Task? > > I'm curious, because it will change how I choose to integrate a > docking window framework into BizzJUMP. I'm thinking that the > TaskFrame class is the appropriate parent of the docking window tree. > It only makes sense to have the WorkbechFrame as the parent of the > dociking window framework if we will be displaying child tabs in the > Workbench Frame. > > There are basically two (2) ways I can approach the docking window > framework integration: > > [1] Make the WorkbenchFrame the parent of the docking window tree. In > this scenario tasks would be child tabs of the WorkBenchFrame, and > other "views" related to all tasks (if any exist) would also be > displayed as tabs. > > [2] Make the TaskFrame class the parent of the docking window tree. In > this scenario tasks would remain in their current implementation as an > InternalFrame. Each InternalFrame would be the parent of its own > docking window tree. > > Thank you for your suggestions. > > The Sunburned Surveyor > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > -- http://amusingprogrammer.blogspot.com/
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