[Qt-interest] MID/SDI

[John Weeks]

Still ramping up on a Qt port of my company's application...

Our application is more or less an IDE for making scientific

Presently we run on Macintosh more or less as an SDI application. We have
lots of different kinds of windows, and a session can have zero to many
windows of every type. The menu bar is changed to reflect whatever kind of
window has the focus.

On Windows we run as an MDI application, with all these various window
types inside an MDI window.

It is my sense that these choices reflect what people using these platforms
generally want. So, my question...

Is it easy/possible to write a Qt application that can choose at run-time
whether to be an MDI or SDI application?

In looking at the MDI and SDI examples, it seems like this is a pretty
fundamental choice. The subwindows for an MDI application are
QMdiSubWindows; the windows for a SDI application are QMainWindows (or
something else derived from QWidget).

If this is possible, can you suggest a strategy?

Regards,
John Weeks

WaveMetrics, Inc.
Phone (503) 620-3001
Fax   (503) 620-6754
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