User: Mark Messer

I tried this

On: The Waning of the Overlapping Window Paradigm?

I had an MFC application with 27 views. To make them managable, I spent a lot of time and effort browbeating nested sets of splitter windows into behaving.

It wasn't just an n x m array. You could click on buttons to pop up or hide any view. Another button resized everything evenly. Graphs grew and shrank to fit their window. Everything had keyboard shortcuts. I was pretty proud of it.

So customers didn't like it. Go figure.