Le 28 juil. 09 à 11:53, Alastair Houghton a écrit :
On 28 Jul 2009, at 09:09, Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Jul 28, 2009, at 12:29 AM, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com>
wrote:
MDI is a solution to a problem of Windows' own making, where
window == process.
Please don't spread misinformation about Windows, it makes us look
bad. Windows' concept of a window is very different from our
concept thereof. Nothing restricts Windows apps to one window or
enforces a window = process equality.
Quite. I was going to point that out also; there certainly used to
be apps on Windows used top-level windows in a Mac-like way (indeed,
Visual Basic used to do this before it became part of Visual Studio,
as did Delphi and its cousin C++ Builder, and arguably most web
browsers---including Internet Explorer---still do).
Windows' concept of a window is certainly more fine-grained than on
OS X; they're more like NSViews than NSWindows in many respects, and
indeed many controls *are* windows on Windows (though some, as an
"optimisation", were built to draw into their parent window in a
manner somewhat analogous to the relationship between NSControl and
NSCell... obviously this means that the parent window needs special
support for this arrangement, which can be irritating as it's
usually just a normal window or a group box or something as opposed
to an NSControl analogue).
MDI is a design choice. One that conflicted with MS's goals for a
more document-centric UI in Chicago/Win95 and won out.
Indeed.
Anyway, debate over MDI versus document-per-window is not really
needed here and is in danger of drifting off topic. We all know the
pros and cons.
The important thing to take away from this, I think, is that as a
general rule your application will look and feel bad if it doesn't
match the UI style that is expected on a particular platform.
Windows apps that try to do a document-per-window approach will
probably attract criticism from Windows users […]
Really ? From MSDN page about MDI ;-)
Note MDI is an application-oriented model. Many new and intermediate
users find it difficult to learn to use MDI applications. Therefore,
many applications are switching to a document-oriented model.
Therefore, you may want to consider other models for your user
interface. However, you can use MDI for applications which do not
easily fit into an existing model until a more suitable model is
introduced.
_______________________________________________
Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com)
Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.
Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
