[Gambas-user] Gambas & SDI

[Rob]

On Tuesday 06 July 2004 07:34, Daniel Oxley wrote:
> Thanks, I suspected as much.  It all comes down to personal
> choice really. I have always hated the MDI style apps.  To me
> it looks horrible and untidy, like The Gimp.  All those extra
> buttons on the taskbar etc.

I think you have it backwards.  MDI (multiple document interface) 
is what the Workspace control enables and what the Gimp folks 
seem to hate for some reason: all the subwindows of your app 
being managed by one big container window.  It's like, if your 
toolkit can't handle the interface style used by about 8 of the 
top 10 apps in current use today, just say so rather than make 
up stuff about how you're right and the rest of the world is 
wrong.  The world is about market share and what most people 
feel comfortable with using, not what some random experts think.

SDI (single document interface) isn't really what Gimp or the 
current Gambas are either, since normally it's still one window 
with maybe some toolbars and stuff.

I would call the Gimp "HDI" or "horrible document interface". ;)  
I don't find Gambas nearly as bad but that's probably owing to 
the tree view of the whole project being available.  I still 
want a VB6-like MDI version, even though I know most people 
probably don't.

Rob