Re: Window manager interaction

[David Chisnall]

On 18 Oct 2009, at 07:44, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> > With regard to creating a new document upon program startup, I  
> > think that a document based application should always do so  
> > (regardless of the interface style) and have committed code for  
> > that too.
>
> I'm less sure about that ... one thing I really hate is applications  
> which open up blank document windows when I don't want them (which  
> is almost always the case).
> You are probably right about it though ... it does seem a very  
> common behavior on OSX (though some apps open the most recently used  
> document, and few don't open anything).  Is it actually automatic  
> though ... if so, it might be nice to have a default to disable it.


This was why I suggested doing it only if, after calling - 
applicationDidFinishLaunching in the delegate, there is no main  
window.  That way, if the application is opening the last document on  
relaunch, or providing a 'create some specialised kind of document'  
window, -gui has somewhere sensible to put the menu already and  
doesn't need to create one.  Note that I was only suggesting this  
behaviour for applications in the Win95 interface style.  In any other  
interface style it's not particularly important, because the window  
location doesn't change when you have no main windows.

Oh, and Riccardo, Microsoft deprecated MDI almost a decade ago now.   
Any applications still using it are violating Microsoft's HIGs.  MS  
Office hasn't used it since Office 2000; each MS Word document is a  
stand-alone window.  When you close the last one, Word exits.

David

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