MDI?

Bert Freudenberg bert at impara.de
Fri Oct 7 08:47:49 UTC 2005


The Windows implementation was done by impara, it's in the public SVN  
repository:

     http://squeak.hpl.hp.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/platforms/ 
win32/plugins/HostWindowPlugin/

- Bert -


Am 07.10.2005 um 03:53 schrieb Ron Teitelbaum:

> Tim,
>
> Ok so what can I do to help with the windows platform?  Is this a  
> new vm?
> Can I help testing/programming it?  I couldn't find the code anywhere.
>
> Ron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of  
> tim
> Rowledge
> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 9:46 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: MDI?
>
>
> On 6-Oct-05, at 6:31 PM, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
>
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> Multiple Document Interface - the old style Windows silliness where
> an application had a single window and all it's stuff was done inside
> with sub-windows as if the application had a private screen. I think
> it was a sort of attempt to be like Mac with a screen menubar (now
> _there's_ a dumb idea) and yet be a bit different to avoid shouts of
> "plaigarist!". Not that it worked of course - remember the lawsuits
> back in the 90s?
>
> One could make a claim that Squeak is doing a sort of MDI but I think
> it is different.
>
> Ffenestri is hopefully away to let Squeak use real host multiple
> windows on multiple screens and even maybe host menus/bars (yeuch). I
> feel it will make headless a bit more tidy as well by getting rid of
> the idea of The Display in favour of 'this window'.
>
>
>>
>> I'm glad to have a chance to say hello.  I've heard some about you
>> from my
>> CIO.
>>
> Ooh, heck, what have I done now....
>
>
> tim
> -- 
> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
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