Re: Multiple Document Interfaces

[Nicolas Roard]

On 2004-05-28 15:43:33 +0000 Java  script  Dude <despam2004@yahoo.ca> 
wrote:

(snip)
> Instead, if a tab control is used to display the instances of files or
> frames of data, the number of windows open in the WM can be reduced
> without any loss of usability. Even though I do use a virtual desktop
> to manage the groupings of application instances, without tabs in
> applications the number of windows I have opened would triple.
>
> There are some of the applications that I use daily that use this
> multiple tab feature that could easily utilize a low level framework:
(snip examples)

Well, you don't want MDI then; what you want is documents tabs.
And on this one I quite agree with MJ Ray : ideally, it shouldn't be 
the
application's job, but the windows manager job (and some windows 
managers
propose just that).
Though, it could be interesting to have some control over the tabs at 
the
application level (for example, to automatically create a new tab 
instead of a
new window ?). And there is also the problem with OS that don't have 
tab-support
in the window manager..
It could perhaps be interesting to have tab-support in thoses cases 
(an option for
NSDocument apps?).
Anyway, it's not really something difficult to add in an application 
if the developer wants it.

> Unfortunately, my current job does not warrant any C/C++/Obj-C apps.
> Instead, I   only need to develop Web based apps using Java, TCL,
> Python, DHTML and Object Relational Data frameworks (PDM's). I'd love
> to move to Obj-C but don't have any projects (yet).

Try GNUstepWeb ;-)

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Nicolas Roard