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Re: To MDI or not to MDI on Windows?

To: kamm at sky-software dot com, REALbasic NUG <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: To MDI or not to MDI on Windows?
From: Aaron Ballman <aaron at realsoftware dot com>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 12:50:01 -0500
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If RB would fix that one problem, the RB Windows IDE would be an extremely useable one. It seems like such an easy thing to accomplish that I'm amazed that they haven't done it. I can only guess that RS does not actually use
the Windows IDE and therefore is immune to its problems.

You guess wrong, and if it was so very easy, it'd be done already. ;-) It's an issue we're looking into solving for a future release tho.

The point is that MDI is not "evil". It is a productive environment when
used properly and under the right circumstances.

Here's MS' stance on when to use MDI: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ dnwue/html/ch10g.asp> Look towards the bottom at the Design Trade-offs section.

HTH!

~Aaron
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