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Subject: Re: Chess GUI design

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 13:00:07 10/07/05

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On October 07, 2005 at 15:31:26, Gerd Isenberg wrote:

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>Hmm... a bit confused about MDI. Is it an ambiguous term in different os/gui
>worlds? Doesn't multiple documents imply multiple windows, at least one
>view per document?

The idea of MDI is that you have one application window (also called 'program
window') and multiple documents _within_ this window. So yes, it is multiple
windows, but with the restriction that all these "document windows" are within
the big application window.


>If we have only a single document, but probably multiple views on it, how is
>that called? I thought SDI.

SDI means that each document has its own main window. To the user it looks like
the application runs multiple times. SDI seems to be the natural way to develop
applications following the MVC (model-view-controller) concept.

Not sure what the proper term for your example would be.

Sargon



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