Hey Tim, 

Interesting,

> I'm puzzled; I understood that MDI had been deprecated even by m$ for  
>years. Why would you want to use such a poor UI idea?

Ok well I've always talked about MDI and Multiple windows as the same thing.
It was a way of having multiple documents each in their own window.  Or
multiple interface each in its own window.  So I think your project is what
I'm looking for.  What can I do to help make this work on windows?

So what is MDI?

I'm glad to have a chance to say hello.  I've heard some about you from my
CIO.

Ron


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Subject: Re: MDI?


On 6-Oct-05, at 5:12 PM, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:

> All,
>
> I see some conversations about supporting multiple windows.  I  
> looked in
> Mantis but didn't see anything.  Does anyone know what the status  
> if this
> development is?

The project is Ariethfa Ffenestri ('platform windows' in Welsh) and  
the very low-level infrastructure was written by John & I last year.  
The VM side is done and tested for OSX and RISC OS but not for  
windows or unix. It provides primitives to create, move, size, hid,  
delete and display in host windows. There is a lot more to do to make  
it fully integrated and probably some changes will be made as we  
discover the needs of windows/unix.


>   Is there someway to support MDI?
I'm puzzled; I understood that MDI had been deprecated even by m$ for  
years. Why would you want to use such a poor UI idea?


tim
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