Editing Multiple-document interface (section)

==Application examples==
* [[Adobe Acrobat]]: MDI until version 7.0 ([[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]-only); SDI default in 8.0 (configurable to MDI); SDI only in 9.0; MDI (with a tabbed interface) in version 2015.
* [[Corel Wordperfect]]: MDI. A user can open multiple instances of WP with a single document in each, if they have multiple versions of WordPerfect installed on their computer. Recent versions maintain a list of open documents for a given window on the status bar at the bottom of the window, providing a variant of the TDI.
* [[EmEditor]]: Options for either SDI or MDI.
* [[GIMP]]: SDI with floating windows (MDI is available as an option called "Single-Window Mode" since version 2.8 [http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.8.html]).
* [[GIMPshop]]: A [[fork (software development)|fork]] of GIMP aiming to be more like Adobe Photoshop. The [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] version has limited MDI.[https://web.archive.org/web/20050717005118/http://blog.yumdap.net/archives/20-GIMPshop-for-Windows.html]
* [[Google Chrome|Chrome]]: Combination of MDI and TDI. 
* [[Internet Explorer 6]]: a typical SDI application
* [[KWrite]]: Another text editor designed for the [[KDE Software Compilation]], with a simplified SDI but sharing many of Kate's features via a mutual [[Front and back ends|back end]]
* [[Kate (text editor)|Kate]]: Text editor designed for the [[KDE Software Compilation]], with advanced features and a sophisticated MDI
* [[Macromedia Studio]] for Windows: a hybrid interface; TDI unless document windows are un-maximized. (They are maximized by default.)
* [[Microsoft Excel]] 2003: SDI if you start new instances of the application, but MDI if you click the "File → New" menu (but child windows optionally appear on the OS taskbar). SDI only as of 2013.
* [[Microsoft Word]] 2003: MDI until [[Microsoft Office]] 97. After 2000, Word has a [[Multiple Top-Level Windows Interface]], thus exposing to shell individual SDI instances, while the operating system recognizes it as a single instance of an MDI application. In Word 2000, this was the only interface available, but 2002 and later offer MDI as an option. [[Microsoft Foundation Classes]] (which Office is loosely based on) supports this metaphor since version 7.0, as a new feature in [[Visual Studio]] 2002. SDI only as of 2013.
* [[Mozilla Firefox|Firefox]]: TDI by default, can be SDI
* [[Notepad++]], [[PSPad]], [[TextMate]] and many other text editors: TDI
* [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]]: Combination of MDI and TDI (a true MDI interface with a tab bar for quick access).
* [[Paint.NET]]: Thumbnail-based, TDI
* [[UltraEdit]]: Combination of MDI and TDI (a true MDI interface with a tab bar for quick access).
* [[VEDIT]]: Combination of MDI and TDI (a true MDI interface with a tab bar for quick access). Special "Full size" windows act like maximized windows, but allow smaller overlapping windows to be used at the same time. Multiple instances of Vedit can be started, which allows it to be used like an SDI application.
* [[Visual Studio .NET]]: MDI or TDI with "Window" menu, but not both
* [[Visual Studio|Visual Studio 6]] development environment: a typical modern MDI
* [[mIRC]]: MDI by default, can also work on SDI mode
* [[Adobe Photoshop]]: MDI under Windows.  In newer versions, toolbars can move outside the frame window. Child windows can be outside the frame unless they are minimized or maximized.
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===Classic examples===
This is a list of examples from back in the days of [[Windows 95]], and [[Windows 3.x]]
* [[Program Manager]]
* [[File Manager (Windows)|File Manager]]
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