Re: [Java-gnome-developer] multiple windows

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

On Mon, 2005-31-10 at 16:45 +0100, Daniel Gutierrez wrote:
> You can see child windows into the parent window

I'm no expert, but my sense of what you've been trying to describe might
be called "nested windows".

"parent-child" tends to be used in GTK to describe the relationship
between Widgets, say, a Label is a child of an HBox, which in turn is a
child of a VBox, whose parent is ultimately a Window.

The thing about "nested windows" is that, in a effect, you have to
create your own Window Manager inside the broad canvas of your
application. Tiling, minimizing/maximizing, dragging sub-windows... That
sounds like A Lot Of Work (tm) to me :)

{GTK/GNOME | Linux} programs tend to use a main application window then
independent windows (dialogs for specific information requests or
displays, and full windows for, say, composing a new email message) for
specific work tasks. Tabs are an intermediate solution.

If you're committed to the nested layout because of an application
requirement, you might consider looking writing a plugin to Eclipse. But
that too would be A Lot Of Work (tm) :)

AfC
Toronto