UI/area questions

[Vladimir Prus]

On Wednesday 19 December 2007 22:23:37 Alexander Dymo wrote:
> 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.

Of course. This means we do need 
"switch to area named 'Coding' inside *this* mainwindow" feature in code, which is
not present currently.

- Volodya