Re: I hate MDI

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From: Philip Newton
Subject: Re: I hate MDI
Date: 14:32 on 03 Sep 2003
On 3 Sep 2003 at 6:57, Peter da Silva wrote:

> I think that they're trying to emulate Apple's "close-isn't-exit"
> behaviour. 

Yes, thank goodness that Windows apps have Exit menu items.

Except for Windows CE (or Pocket PC or whatever it's called this week).

I wonder whose wonderful idea it was that WinCE apps don't have a way 
to exit the app? The docs claim that the OS does such a jolly good job 
of handling memory that it'll close applications automatically when 
needed and you should just leave them open until then.

Except that it isn't that good -- I can't say I've had it run out of 
memory but it does get very sluggish when you've got too many things 
open at once.

And even now that I've found a third-party application that can close 
WinCE apps -- after I've been working for a while, I never get back all 
the program memory even by closing all apps; instead, I need to reset 
the thing.

Great! Memory management that's so superior you need to reboot your 
machine every once in a while. Just like good old Windows.

Cheers,
Philip
-- 
Philip Newton <pnewton@xxx.xx>

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