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unless you have a one window app, mdi is the
standard windows way.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 10:51
AM
Subject: WIN32: Multiple Windows without
MDI
Hi,
I'd like to re-write a couple of win32 applications
that are currently built
with MDI to behave more like e.g. Internet
Explorer. I'm wondering about the
best way to approach this.
First,
I made a simple app where the window1 contains a button which
does
this:
dim w as window
w=new window1
w.show
This allows me to open
multiple windows and each get's their own little tab
in the Taskbar. I can
close them independently and the menu bar is shared.
So any dynamic menus
update in all the windows. That's cool. But when I quit
the app from any
window, all windows close. Which is NOT what I want.
Now, obviously
this could be controlled in code where a 'QUIT' would be
restricted to
closing the window that issued the call unless APP finds it
was the last
window and thus gracefully quits.
The other solution would be to locate
the application itself within code and
simply 'launch' it again when a 'new
window' is requested. This appears to
be how IE and some other apps work.
In that case then, each app runs as an
independent process, which would
eliminate the need for fancy two-stepping
in code.
The problem I see
with the latter is how to manage shared resources, e.g.
dynamic menus, such
as Bookmarks for example.
Each of the above has some pros/cons and it's
clear to me that this is
exactly what MDI is supposed to resolve. However,
I just can't help it - I
find MDI totally ugly. I went with it for a few
apps after I found out that
premiere apps such as Adobe Photoshop use it as
well, [making them not more
attractive either]
The question is: It
might just be my personal preference not using MDI, but
Windows user are
probably used to it and it doesn't bother them at all.
Should I bother
trying to avoid MDI? If the answer was yes, I'd really
appreciate some
insight on the better approach using RB. I might well be
overlooking other
critical issues that will impact my work if I move away
from
MDI.
Thanks,
Juergen
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