Removal of Windows Container Interface (WCI)
The WCI is no longer supported.
Starting with version 4.00, the Windows Container Interface (WCI) is desupported. This feature was only available with the GDC front-end in native rendering mode.
The related ui.Interface
methods to defined container/child relationship still
exist, but are now deprecated, namely: setType()
, getType()
, setContainer()
, getContainer()
, getChildCount()
, getChildInstances()
. Programs using these APIs to define a WCI application
can keep the code: The Window Container Interface (aka MDI) rendering is no longer available, but
the getChildCount()
and getChildInstance()
methods still return
the child counts, except when browserMultiPage=yes
(with GAS/GBC) or when
desktopMultiWindow=yes
(with GDC/UR/GBC): In this case the methods return
zero.
As a replacement for WCI, Genero provides the following user interface options:
- When using the GAS and a web browser, the windows of all applications display by default in the
same web browser tab, and the sidebar on the left allows you to toggle between applications. This
can be controlled with the
UserInterface/browserMultiPage
style attribute. - When using the GDC front-end on desktop, the
UserInterface/desktopMultiWindow
style attribute can be defined to render the windows of all applications in the same desktop window container, or in dedicated window containers.
See Containers for program windows for more details.