UI/area questions

Alexander Dymo dymo at ukrpost.ua
Wed Dec 19 19:23:37 UTC 2007


On Saturday 15 December 2007 23:30:28 Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Ok, now suppose there's a menu for switching "perspectives", with two
> entries -- "Coding" and "Debug". You manually switch first mainwindow to
> "Debug", debug something, and switch back to coding. I'd expect to see
> whatever state was before switch to "Debug" -- not whatever is shown in the
> second window. And that means that "Coding" must mean different things in
> the first and the second mainwindow.

When you open the second mainwindow, you create the "clone" of an area. While 
it can be still seen as "coding" by user, internally it will be another area.




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