Compiling for Windows

[Richard Gaskin]

Scott Raney wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/28/02 12:24 PM, Ray Horsley wrote:
>> 
>>> I've encountered two issues in making my Windows App.
>>> 
>>> The first one is doing something about Window's propensity to open a second
>>> copy of my App if it's double-clicked again after a first copy is already
>>> running (instead of the Mac's more reasonable approach of bringing the first
>>> copy forward). 
>> 
>> This comes up on the list so often...Scott, is there any way that
>> MetaCard could help handle this situation? Any Windows property it could
>> report or some other way to prevent it?
> 
> I think what is required here is an attitude adjustment rather than
> some sort of engineering change.  Repeat after me: "Windows is not
> MacOS".  Starting up multiple copies of an app is the the way it's
> *supposed* to work if that's what the user wants.  If you've designed
> your app such that it breaks when you start up multiple copies, you
> should probably work on fixing your app rather than trying to change
> the way Windows (or UNIX) works ;-)

While I understand the HIG specs, the problem is that without MDI we need to
create workarounds for apps that could benefit from that model.

Any idea of a timeline for MDI support?

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