SDI or MDI

2020-01-30 Thread Paul Dennis via 4D_Tech
Seeing an earlier post by Tim. I'm struggling to understand the benefit of SDI on Windows. I understand on a Mac with the way the menu switches with the window SDI makes sense. However the windows implementation where the menu remains with the window does not work for me so I am surprised why peopl

Re: SDI or MDI

2020-01-30 Thread Jody Bevan via 4D_Tech
Paul: The biggest reason for me, are clients that have two monitors on windows. Having the SDI means they can move the windows in our app anywhere they want. With the MDI if they want to use both monitors, they need to drag the MDI window across both windows. Having tried this myself, it just d

Re: SDI or MDI

2020-01-30 Thread Tim Nevels via 4D_Tech
On Jan 30, 2020, at 2:00 PM, Paul Dennis wrote: > Seeing an earlier post by Tim. I'm struggling to understand the benefit of > SDI on Windows. I understand on a Mac with the way the menu switches with > the window SDI makes sense. However the windows implementation where the > menu remains with th

Re: SDI or MDI

2020-01-31 Thread Paul Dennis via 4D_Tech
Thanks for replies. Never considered the multiple monitor issue. My customers have always been in the KISS group. Cheers Paul -- Sent from: http://4d.1045681.n5.nabble.com/4D-Tech-f1376241.html ** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNU

Re: SDI or MDI

2020-01-31 Thread Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech
Paul, On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 12:40 PM Tim Nevels via 4D_Tech < 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > If you are a Windows user that has multiple monitors and you like to use > all of your monitors for any window you want, then MDI is a severely > limiting user interface. You are limited to only using 1