Re: Emulating MDI

[Robert Pearce <rob bdt-home demon co uk>]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Micah Carrick <email micahcarrick com> wrote :
> I typically just use resizable panes and tabbed notebooks. I think it's 
> a nicer UI personally.

Not that I really care what looks nicer to you personally...

As I mentioned in my other reply, I'm not really looking to have 
"several documents open" (but only look at one of them) so a tabbed 
notebook is no use at all. And re-sizeable panes are all very well but 
rather limited to showing things side-by-side. What I want is to allow 
the user to define a group of stuff in one box, another group of stuff 
in a second box, and a different way of looking at other stuff in a 
third, then have the ability to say "no, actually, I think I want that 
third box at the top, and the other two side by side below it". So 
resizing just doesn't cut the mustard.
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