On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Mark wrote:
> > Hello Wan. > > Do you mean : ? Does X Windows have MDI forms? (MDI= Multiple Document > Interface), in a sense that when you maximize one of the child windows it > only covers the area ocupied by the parent (the MDI form). > > As in windows all widgets and windows have a parent-child relationship, but > normally ALL parent forms are SDI (Single Document Interface). (They still > convey to the parent-child scheme!, but are rather independant in their > shape and form over non parent workspace area) > > MDI forms can be achieved though. There are nice free widgets (at least > one!) to acomplish this. And giving it a thought you could probably > constrain you child forms (windows) to the parent geometry without much > fuss, at least at a first glance. > > If you want to know anything else about the MDI widget I talk about (as I > said I found it free on the net), send me an e-mail and I will send it to > you. > > Hope I helped, regards, Mark. > Thanks....Actually I want to write a program portable between Linux and windows..And gtk+ has been chosen for my program as gtk+ have a win32 port. Does gtk+ have a MDI widget for it? ~
