On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But moreover, aside from the clear benefits of designing apps for both Mac
> and Windows for the designer, the user benefits as well, esp. in contexts
> where it is likely the user will want to have multiple documents open, as in
> Word. By having the documents share a common layer visually and
> behaviorally, the functional relationship between the documents (copy and
> paste between them, perform searches across documents, etc.) is strongly
> reinforced.
>
> By contrast, with a MetaCard-based app it is possible to have two document
> windows which belong to the same process running in very different layers,
> with another process window in between them. This is only true on Windows
> of course (Linux too?), as on Mac the unified layer is enforced by the OS.
There are exceptions to this "rule", of course, the Windows Desktop
Explorer (the Finder equivalent) being the most obvious of these.
Nevertheless, I certainly agree that support for MDI windows in
MetaCard is a high priority. In fact, this was on the to-do list for
the next release, but unfortunately is one of the things that got
pushed back in order to get a release for OS X out in a timely manner.
Still, it shouldn't be an interminable wait before we get this
implemented.
Regards,
Scott
PS: thanks to andu for the X-on-Darwin pointer (though the URL is
actually the clever contraction "darwinfo.org"). The package was
released exactly a month ago today, but I must have missed it in the
holiday rush. I'll download it and have a stab at doing a port this
weekend ;-)
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> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Media Corporation
> Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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