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Re: Document App or not?
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Re: Document App or not?


  • Subject: Re: Document App or not?
  • From: Moray Taylor <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 16:35:51 +0000

I think when you deciding on if you need a document based app, or a non-document based one, the main issue is if the app will have multiple instances of it's window's, i.e. iTunes does not have multiple player windows, so it's not a Document based app, but OSX's Mail does let you have multiple viewer windows, which would suggest it's a document based app.

Cheers


Moray

I planning on creating an application that will have a similar interface
structure to iTunes, but I am not sure if I should use a Document-based
application or not. Any advise as to pro or con of each option would be
greatly appreciated.

Basically the app will have a predefined collection of players that will
load in a window like the main window for iTunes. Users don't add or remove
from this collection but they can manage their own groupings of the players
from the collection. A single click on a group will list its members in a
table view (like a playlist and its songs). If a user double-clicks on the
group, a separate window would open with more details of the group and all
of its members. The user should be able to have multiple group windows open
at a time. Any changes or updates the users make to the groups would be
saved automatically.

My question is, would a document-based application be better for this app
because of the management issues of multiple group windows or can this be
done in a standard application?

Peer
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