Re: SciTE, GUIs, desktop real estate

["Mark Meijer" <meijer78@...>]

Hm, now that I mention it, I think Scite *does* allow multiple
instances of itself, isn't that right? If so, that should solve OP's
problem.


2008/10/5 Mark Meijer <meijer78@gmail.com>:
> I never get why some apps don't allow multiple instances of
> themselves. There's good reason for some apps, but there are a lot of
> apps out there where I just don't see why not, and I guess Scite falls
> into that category. Anyone knows why?
>
>
> 2008/10/5 Tim Channon <tc@gpsl.net>:
>> Gavin Wraith wrote:
>>
>>> As a dedicated Lua user, and as a newcomer to Windows XP, I have been
>>> delighted by SciTE, especially its configurability by Lua scripts.
>>> But the Windows version has a fundamental drawback (I do not know
>>> if versions on other platforms suffer the same): you can only view
>>> one file at a time. I say "view", not "open". The whole purpose of a
>>> desktop GUI is to be able to read information from various sources
>>> simultaneously. I do not want to obscure the window in which I am
>>> writing when I am consulting information in other windows; I need
>>> to see all of them, at once. Lots of text-editors for Windows seem
>>> to deny the purpose of a desktop in this way. Why is this?
>>
>> Yes this is an annoyance of scite.
>>
>> Think it needs to be an MDI application.
>>
>> Digging, found this, undated
>>
>> "I'm fairly hostile to MDI as it will require lots of changes and more
>> complexity. If this is wanted then the best way would be to fork SciTE
>> so I don't have to worry about it. There are other Scintilla based
>> projects that are MDI such as Moleskine and Pythonwin."
>>
>> This is apt too (web mirror of google group)
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/scite-interest/tree/browse_frm/month/2008-05/97292b7c0e3e6654?rnum=81&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fscite-interest%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fmonth%2F2008-05%3F
>>
>> Not sure what this is
>> "Thats why i've made a launcher, to arrange two instances of SciTE
>> automatically."
>> http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=77875
>>
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