On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 12:35:15 -0600 jd1008 <jd1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 06/06/2016 12:23 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > > At 11:58 06/06/2016 -0600, Jonly Donly wrote: > >> ... there is a great convenience in letting the user run multiple > >> instances of it in order (for example) to view differences between > >> multiple versions of a document in parallel. This is so incredibly > >> useful for people running aoo on computers with very large high > >> resolution screens, like mine. > > > > You are missing the point here. If you open multiple documents, such > > as your multiple versions of the same document, in the same instance > > of OpenOffice, you have separate windows - and you can resize and > > reposition these to be able to see, compare, scroll, edit the > > documents, and so on independently and simultaneously. That's just > > like the separate windows you would see from separate instances of the > > program. > > > 1. You misquote who wrote the statement. Why do you keep doing that? > John Donly did not post it. I did. > 2. On linux, there is only one aoo window, not multiple windows for > multiple versions of some file. > Sure would like to see an explanation how to get those multiple > windows on linux. > > > What else are you expecting? > > > > Brian Barker
MS Office uses Multiple Document Interface which allows multiple windows from the same application. Because of the support for multiple operating systems, OpenOffice uses Single Document Interface, as the MDI code was not/Is not available across the multiple platforms. As the source code is freely available, if you require this feature you could implement it, if it be implementable - available code libraries might have changed and this functionality might now be available. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
