Technology for creating multi-window MDI-style applications in the Delphi programming environment

Zdor Dmitry, Savelyeva Ekaterina, Lomonosov Dmitrii

When creating an application, the initial stage of work is the development of an interface. Among all applications built as multiwindows, one can single out a special style - MDI. Despite the rather rare distribution in the practice of programming multi-window MDI-style applications, there is a need for them, so the technology for creating such applications deserves attention. The purpose of the work is to present the meaningful design elements of a multi-window MDI style application in the Delphi programming environment in a holistic way. In the article, an example presents in a holistic way the technology for designing a multi-window MDI style application. At each stage of the technology implementation, the content of its elements is determined. Comments presented in the program code explain the software implementation of technology elements. The content elements of the technology described in the paper can be used as invariant, which allows them to be used as a template when creating multi-window MDI applications.

Keywords:window, form, multi-window application, form style.