Re: Cocoa Document-Based App v. Windows MDI App
Re: Cocoa Document-Based App v. Windows MDI App
- Subject: Re: Cocoa Document-Based App v. Windows MDI App
- From: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:20:17 -0700
On Jul 26, 2009, at 20:46, David Blanton wrote:
I am the only Mac programmer where I work; the rest being windows.
I am constantly challenged to make Mac programs look like windows to
some extent.
Windows has an architecture called Multiple Document Interface.
Each doc opened is displayed in the same window 'frame' with a row
of tab controls at the top to select a document.
A Cocoa Document-Based App is one document one window ... multiple
windows.
How do I win the battle of 'too many windows floatin' around on the
Mac, we want everything in one window like windows!" ?
a. You can't win the battle. Not ever.
b. Your best strategy is probably to say, "The Mac frameworks just
don't support that approach. Sorry. I could re-implement MDI on the
Mac, but it would be about a man-year's work. Do you want me to do
that?"
(I'm not saying this is true, just that it's your best strategic
answer.)
Consider Adobe's adoption of a more-or-less MDI interface on the Mac,
and the many-more-than-one man-years of work they put into it, and the
huge outcry that resulted anyway.
Consider also that Windows (Vista and beyond) doesn't exactly use the
MDI interface any more (not the traditional one), though it uses
something related to it that's more complicated. You want to reinvent
that?
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