íÉÈÁÉÌ é×ÁÎÏ× wrote: > Work area should contain a number of other possibly overlapping > windows (with frame and title). These windows should be modal > (actually they are arranged as stack and only top-level window > can be active). But the buttons from the main window (global > buttons) should still be usable. Use a GtkNotebook. > Any advice is greatly appreciated. Forget about MDI (Multi Document Interface) like in windoze. I's A Bad Thing (TM). You can find many references online. If you have independent "documents", use GtkNotebook (my preferred and IMHO quite idiot-proof -- my mother RARELY does something on the wrong document this way) or separate top level windows (like Gimp -- more error-prone but might look better to windoze users...). BYtE, Diego. _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list