New Window (Choice)

Reference

Description

New Window is an action or cascading choice that displays a view of the currently viewed data in a new window.

When to Use

Required

Provide a New Window choice in the View menu if your application allows a user to display a new window that contains another view of the data viewed in the current window.

Guidelines

Required

When New Window is an action choice, choosing it displays a new window that contains the same view of the data as the current window, or a default view.

Required

When New Window is a cascading choice, its cascaded menu must list the views available to be shown in the new window.

Recommended

Make New Window an action choice when a user is most likely to want the new window to show the view that will be chosen (for example, either the same view or a default view).

Recommended

Make New Window a cascading choice when a user is most likely to want the new window to show a different view than is being viewed in the current window.

Recommended

If you use a cascading choice for New Window, and you cannot show additional windows of some views, display choices for those views in the cascaded menu with unavailable emphasis.

Recommended

Use a property that the user can set to determine whether New Window uses the view in the current window or a default view.

Required

Do not change the underlying data being viewed when the user opens a window that contains a new view.

Recommended

If you use multiple windows to display the same type of view of a file or object, and the user makes a File menu choice in one of the windows to change the file or object being viewed, only that window is affected; the other windows contain the original file or object.

Essential Related Topics

For more information, see the View and View Menu reference pages.

Supplemental Related Topics

For more information, see the Object reference page.