[Qt-interest] MID/SDI

[Justin Noel]

John Weeks wrote:
> 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?
>
>   

While not a "simple example", check out the source to Designer the GUI 
builder that comes with Qt. It switches MDI/SDI at runtime.

Good luck,
--Justin
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