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Usually, an application provides one document per main window and such applications are said to be Single Document Interface (SDI) applications. As the name suggests, a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) application is able to display several documents. An MDI application consists of a main window along with a menu bar, a toolbar, and a central space. Several documents can be displayed in the central space, where each document can be managed through individual child window widgets; in MDI, several documents can be displayed and each document is displayed in its own window. These child windows are also known as subwindows.
MDI is implemented by making use of the MdiArea widget. The MdiArea widget provides an area where child windows ...
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