[Gambas-user] About workspace and MDI applications

[Benoit Minisini]

On Monday 05 July 2004 22:31, Daniel wrote:
> El lun, 05-07-2004 a las 20:54, Benoit Minisini escribió:
> > Hi, everybody.
> >
> > I tried to transform the Gambas IDE in a fully MDI application base on
> > the Workspace control.
> >
> > Alas I failed to make a really useful and functional Workspace control to
> > do that, because the QWorkspace Qt widget is very poorly designed.
> >
> > So, I think I won't do that for the 1.0. But don't worry, I will find
> > another way of having everything in one window, like KMail does.
> >
> > At the moment, I think that the Workspace control is a bit useless. Will
> > somebody be annoyed if I removed it in the next version ?
>
> I'd love it, as GTK+ people seems to hate MDI, however Fabien did some
> work with an IRC client using that Workspace control...
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel Campos
>

The problem is that there are many inconsistencies (should I say design 
flaws ?) in the way MDI windows are handles. I couldn't succeed in having MDI 
child windows that raise their events correctly.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini
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