[wxPython-users] successor to MDI?

[Andrea Gavana]

Hi Danny,

> """
> Remember MDI?...We recomment using MDI only in cases where the user expects
> to see all of the application windows together, such
> as a game...
> """
>
> The last gui I developed was MDI, which probably dates me. So the question
> is, what has the world moved to?
> Notebook interfaces?

Yes, this is an alternative. Notebooks (BookCtrls, wx.Notebook,
FlatNotebook and all their friends) are very useful and intuitive when
you want to show multiple windows that hold different kind of
information.
However, the MDI deprecation is mainly a Microsoft point of view. In
every day life (at least in our work field), I see *many*
modern-looking apps written with the MDI philosophy.
You may also want to consider the approach with user interface
managers, like wxAUI. This last approach has so many adavntages (to
me, obviously), that I almost adopted it 100% for all the GUIs I built
in the last months.

HTH.

Andrea.

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