On 2/27/2010 12:18 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:

MDI (multi-document interface) is one big
outer window with multiple other windows embedded inside that parent
window. Most IDE's seem to go the MDI route.

That's called SDI, not MDI. A single window contains frames, filling the entire window. It's like everything docked into a single application window, and some IDEs actually allows to undock some frames.

DoDi-

You have that exactly backwards. One big window with child windows all contained inside it is MDI. An program with several seemingly independent windows that act in a coordinated way while appearing separate from each other is SDI.

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