Yes, I am interested in a better window class. My app opens lots of
'windows' (we call then tools) and I think a better approach would be great.

Thanks,
Jim


On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:31 PM, waysoftheearth <[email protected]
> wrote:

>
> A long time ago (in the days of Qx 0.6.x) I wrote the "WindowManagerEx"
> contribution which included a lot of the generally desired "extra" window
> functionality.
>
> None of that code made it into the 0.8 framework, however, so when I needed
> to port my legacy Qx app to 0.8.x, I set about reimplementing most of it.
> 0.8.x is certainly a much richer platform, but I must admit I was just a
> little disappointed to find that the design of the window package was still
> very limited.  I wrote a few notes about this here recently in another
> thread called "Difficulty extending WindowManager 0.8.3+".
>
> That aside, I have now built an alternative implementation of the window
> package (re-structuring some of the existing code) in order to make it more
> extensible and MVC-centric.  My implementation includes a Dock and a
> Desktop, and makes it much easier to add additional alternate views, such
> as
> a Virtual Desktop, Zoomed-Mini-Map and so on.
>
> If anyone is interested, it would be useful for me to have it reviewed by
> the Qx gurus, and I suspect it may be a useful head-start for others who
> want some of that "extra" window functionality.
>
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