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Subject: Re: Portable User Interface Library Update
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Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 15:43:18 EST
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> (Re: multiple windows in a text adventure)
> 
> No prblem. You seem to have been a little confused by what I meant by
> a "pane".  Think of panes as tiled (non-overlapping) subwindows within
> another window.  On the Mac, for instance, Microsoft Word implements
> this to let you look at two pieces of the same document.
> 

If this is the only way that you will be able to have multiple windows for
one application, I really would not want to use your library. This sounds to 
me like really butchering the user interface for the sake of portability.

Seriously, this is starting to sound like you are trying to set up an
interface that pleases everyone but satisfies no-one. Perhaps you should take
two steps backward and re-think the way you handle certain issues. Perhaps
the first idea that comes to your head is not the best.

Regarding the multiple windows issue, consider bringing all of an
application's window to the top when it is selected, and sharing certain
windows such as palettes between documents of the same application.