[Gambas-user] keep forms into a form

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Fabien Bodard wrote:
> 2009/11/24  <nospam.nospam.nospam at ...626...>:
>> Jean-Yves F. Barbier wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there a manner to keep my forms into my main form?
>>> other than using a workspace that apparently force children
>>> to appear as tabs.
>>> And to have them as icons (or anything else) into this main
>>> form when minimized?
>>
>> Rob wrote one for Gambas 1x some years ago as an add-on. I have no
>> idea if it's been maintained so you'll have to wait for him to
>> comment on that bit.
>>
>> Gambas, and rightly so IMO, chose to stay away from the traditional
>> MDI interface, probably because they feel the same way about MDI as
>> I do. My opinion is [CENSORED].
>
> Right !

:)

> in the gb1 version, the workspace component was like the windows one
> ... with child windows.. in a working area...
>
> But it was too hardly linked to qt ... and not really used in Linux
> common interfaces... So Benoit and many of us, after a long long
> exchange of mail, have take the decision to use a tabbed MDI
> interface... Like you can see in the gambas ide, gedit, kate, quanta,
> web broswers, etc

Look, I cut my teeth on DOS before Windows was even dreamt of. The win3 MDI 
interface was the best anyone could come up with two full decades ago. Even 
Microsoft dropped it in SP2 (IIRC) of XP. If you knew the right call in SP1, 
your whole XP looked like win3, but its use was so rare that even MS had to 
kill it, several years ago.

PS: I am a reformed windows developer of many decades experience. I had a 
hold of win3 when it was at 1.1. Back then, it was an advancement. Not now, 
it's just a few strides back.

> So, i think you can try to construct your interface around this idea

Oh, good grief! I would never do such a thing!

:)

About this:
> and not really used in Linux
> common interfaces

IMO, there far too many attempts to make linux UIs look like Windows, KDE 
being one of them. After 30+ years in IT, and 25 years or so experience with 
Windows before it became well-known, Gnome is a Godsend.

And it was a smart, pre-emptive move.

Oh. I used to work for Ashton-Tate, now Borland. That's how I got my hands 
on Windows before anyone else.

LONG LIVE LINUX! LONG LIVE GAMBAS!

Even if Rob Kudla does think I'm an angry so and so.