[Lazarus] debug windows layout

Doug Chamberlin dougchamberlin at earthlink.net
Sat Feb 27 14:12:31 CET 2010


On 2/27/2010 12:18 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>
>> MDI (multi-document interface) is one big
>> outer window with multiple other windows embedded inside that parent
>> window. Most IDE's seem to go the MDI route.
>
> That's called SDI, not MDI. A single window contains frames, filling 
> the entire window. It's like everything docked into a single 
> application window, and some IDEs actually allows to undock some frames.

DoDi-

You have that exactly backwards. One big window with child windows all 
contained inside it is MDI. An program with several seemingly 
independent windows that act in a coordinated way while appearing 
separate from each other is SDI.

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