Special

Introducing the “Welcome to Xojo” Bundle!

New to Xojo and looking for guidance? We've put together a terrific bundle to welcome you! Xojo Bundle

This bundle includes six back issues of the magazine -- all of year 21 in printed book and digital formats -- plus a one-year subscription (beginning with 22.1) so you'll be learning all about Xojo for the next year. It's the perfect way to get started programming with Xojo. And you save as much as $35 over the non-bundle price!

This offer is only available for a limited time as supplies are limited, so hurry today and order this special bundle before the offer goes away!

Article Preview


Buy Now

Issue 5.5

COLUMN

MDI

What is the Windows Multiple Document Interface?

Issue: 5.5 (July/August 2007)
Author: Christian Schmitz
Author Bio: Christian Schmitz is the creator of the Monkeybread Software REALbasic Plugins.
Article Description: No description available.
Article Length (in bytes): 4,951
Starting Page Number: 44
Article Number: 5516
Related Link(s): None

Excerpt of article text...

REALbasic has some options you never see when you walk around all the options in a project. There is a MDI checkbox in the application subclass but most developers do not know exactly what it does. MDI is the shortcut for "Multiple Document Interface."

An application on Mac OS X is actually always an MDI. You can open several documents, each in its own window. A central menubar will show the window for the current window.

On Windows you can have an application (non-MDI) which has a window and attached to this window a menubar. If you open several windows you can have several menubars. Each window has a property named menubar where you can assign the menubar to be used for this window. On Linux it is the same.

...End of Excerpt. Please purchase the magazine to read the full article.