[JPP-Devel] Thinking About OpenJUMP's MDI Nature

2009-04-01 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
I believe that OpenJUMP was originally designed with an MDI (Multiple Document Interface) architecture, where each document was a single Task. I was curious if our porgrammers and users felt that this was a useful concept that we should adhere to. Are supplemental views and dialogs (like the

Re: [JPP-Devel] Thinking About OpenJUMP's MDI Nature

2009-04-01 Thread Larry Becker
Hi SS, I'm not sure I am visualizing what you mean in the two options correctly. Setting aside parent issues, what would you envision that the interface would look like with two tasks open? Can you cobble a picture together that gets the point across? regards, Larry On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at

Re: [JPP-Devel] Thinking About OpenJUMP's MDI Nature

2009-04-01 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Pictures would have helped, but they are difficult to get without writing the code. Let me see if I can explain it a little better. In the first scenario I described previously each Task would be represented by a tabbed pane in a tabbed pane holder. The tab would have the name of the task, while