> >David Schmitz wrote:
> >>multiple documents are handled by opening up an entirely new window.
I second that. There is nothing that chaps my hide more than the way that
word uses MDI for all the word files. With MDI I can not use keyboard
shortcuts like ALT-TAB to switch between windows. There is nothing good
about MDI, please leave it out.
mo dejong
dejong at cs.umn.edu
> Oh please please please leave it this way.
>
> One of my major gripes with many windows programs is that horrible MDI
> interface.
>
> So often I just want to move a window to the side of the screen and it slides
> under the side of its parent window, thus having its side chopped off.
>
> If you want to spread all your documents out over the screen, you have to
> expand your parent window to cover the whole screen, then you can't see the
> documents for other programs.
>
> NOT using MDI would be a major competitive advantage to many windows programs
> on the PC.
>
> And for sure don't ever do it on any other platform, you'll be burned at the
> stake.
>
> Mike
>
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Mo DeJong
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