IRC clients and MDI - Microsoft moving away from MDI?

[kayleigh]

Hi, i was just wondering what other options we have. MDI seems to be main feature most clients have.Would you use one if building an irc client? I started off with out one. Half way threw decided to start using one. Now not so sure it's a good idea. What to you lot think

[Evil_Giraffe]

Most IRC clients that I've ever seen use MDI to separate the different channels you are connected to. How would you handle that without MDI?

[Grimfort]

MDI can come in different forms. Apps like IE and mirc use tabbed windows for example rather than the child windows the float about the place. Docking is another feature. I actually use both in my app from a set of tools from Syncfusion, although I have seen a sample version of the docked system in codeproject some time back.