2010/2/27 Flávio Etrusco <[email protected]>: > All this docking talk is nice and everything, but sometimes I ask if > shouldn't just go SDI for Lazarus IDE. I found it odd at the > beginning, but after using several other SDI IDEs now I can't find > reasoning in Delphi-old MDI...
I think you meant other way round. :-) Old Delphi 7 and earlier used SDI interface by default. MDI (multi-document interface) is one big outer window with multiple other windows embedded inside that parent window. Most IDE's seem to go the MDI route. My problem with MDI is the form designer. In such IDE's you can only see the code, or only the Form Designer - not both. :-( For this single reason I prefer SDI layout, but then the IDE must support some form of docking to minimize the amount of windows the developer needs to manage - and reduce the taskbar item count. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
