I would still prefer the standard close button, but if this is not possible, could you move the "close door" icon to the upper right of the window so it would be in the same place as the standard close window button? Thanks, Jeff At 07:26 AM 6/12/98 -0500, you wrote: >>Could you include the standard windows "close, minimize, and mazimize >>buttons" on some of the entry windows instead of just having the close door >>icon to close the window? It would be fine to have both, but I have become >>so accustomed to the standard Windows interface that it feels "unnatural" >>to not have these controls available. > >These three buttons are normally reserved for what is called MDI (multiple >document interface) like when you have multiple documents open in a word >processor. But since they are in reality "dialog" boxes and not MDI windows >I am not sure I can get those buttons on them. To make CFT-Win an MDI >application it should allow multiple edit individuals (ie, edit a person >and minimize, then edit another person and minimize - ending up with more >than one person's edit window open at once). Same thing for Edit Event. It >would require multiple event editors to be opened. In fact I did try doing >something exactly like this for a while with the beginnings of Ver 3 and >really spun my wheels for a fwe months. So many complications and I gave up >and went back to the simpler SDI (Single Document Interface) where you can >only have one window (document) open at a time - in essence these windows >are all technically called "dialogs" rather than "document" windows. > >I know it is all computerese but don't know how else to explain all this mess. > >Ira > >---------------------------------------------------------- > Ira J. Lund > Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA > Genealogy Software for Beginners and Professionals > E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com > http://www.cf-software.com > > mailto:jeff.murphy@worldnet.att.net