Re: [platform-swt-dev] SWT shells, windows, and composites

[Jochen Schafft <mailing_jhs_001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I read that SWT does not support MDI.
Now I am worrying that my decision to use SWT was a mistake because I 
am starting to design an application based on SWT and using an 
MDI-like GUI.
Isn't Eclipse behaving like using MDI?

I read the bug report but for me it is not clear what is the problem. 
Is it the model-view-control paradigm? Or is it the handling of 
subwindows in general? How then is this made in Eclipse?

Jochen


Am Mittwoch, 1. März 2006 22:58 schrieb Carolyn MacLeod:
> This is called MDI or "Multiple Document Interface".
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> Please read the following bug report, and add yourself as a CC:
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=29891
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> For future info, the usual place to ask user questions is the SWT
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> news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.platform.swt
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> Welcome to SWT!
> Carolyn
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> Is it currently possible to develop a standalone SWT application
> that consists of a master widget shell and many smaller free
> 'shell-like' windows all contained inside the display of this
> master so that the OS only cares about the master window and the
> child windows are completely managed within the master shell?
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> Think how Adobe Photoshop on Windows manages all the open images
> the user is working with.  The user is free to minimize, maximize,
> resize, all these image windows within the context of the single
> application so that there aren't a million little application
> windows listed on their Taskbar.
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> At first I thought I could make a new Shell the free moving child
> of a scrolled Composite widget, but it looks like the javadoc says
> Shell()s only come from Displays or other Shells.
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> Is there another way of building the interface I described above? 
> I'm very new to SWT and am not familiar with all the widgets and
> their capabilities.
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