Re: How to - SDI

Perhaps because the students have zero years of experience and the teacher
has 15 years
experience dealing with the reality of MFC applications? Maybe what I do
for a living
carries some weight for people who have never done it? I have yet to find
a situation in
which someone asked for an SDI app and did NOT change their mind and want
MDI. Sometimes
they come to me and say "We started this as an SDI app, now we want MDI,
can you fix it
for us? The guy who did it is long gone." In the first few years, I got
good at this
conversion, because they always asked for SDI but ended up wanting MDI.
And "untold
thousands" does not suggest that those apps always make sense. I once
bought an app that
was SDI, while its predecessor had been a DOS version of an MDI
app...seriously, I could
have multiple files open in the MS-DOS version. In the Windows version,
only one, and the
"clipboard" still used the "internal" mechanism from the MS-DOS version so
I could not
copy objects from one file into another file!

Or, to use another quote I am fond of "Just because it is possible doesn't
mean it makes
sense". My job is to teach people the reality of building apps, not some
hypothetical
model that someone at Microsoft thought of in the early 1990s. Reality
for me has
consistently been that anyone who asks for SDI does so out of ignorance.
As soon as they
see the product, or as soon as their customers see it, they want MDI.