AT>  JdBP>    off.  A multiple document interface (MDI) is *much* easier to 
 AT>  JdBP> produce in Presentation Manager than it is in Windows.

 AT> Sorry, but - while I agree whith your other considerations - I do not
 AT> find this one true.

 AT> I wrote many MDI applications for Windows, and I always found it really
 AT> easy to manage the child windows, whilst I have to do 
 AT> a lot of subclassing
 AT> to have my os/2 MDI applications working. Perhaps, I 
 AT> never found the "king's
 AT> way" to MDI applications in OS/2, but - if I'm not 
 AT> getting me wrong - there
 AT> are nothing in OS/2 such as windows' WM_MDICREATE. Sure, windows MDI are


His statement caught me for a second too.  I think what he means (and he's
right) is that a PM program with multiple windows is _very_ easy (with
their own menus and everything) -- even though it does not look like the
(awful) thing Windows calls "MDI";  where all the windows appear
inside of one frame and share a menu.

Someone trying to port a Windows MDI program to PM and maintain the same
style are in for a lot of work --- but hopefully good sense will prevail
and they will abandon (as MS has) the Windows 3.x MDI paradigm.



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