Re: Subwindow terminology

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

martin rudalics writes:
 >  > I don't understand the term "subwindow" in the new window code.  What's
 >  > the difference between a subwindow and a child window?
 > 
 > The set of child windows of a window W is the set of windows that have W
 > as their parent window.  The set of subwindows of W is recursively
 > defined as the set of windows whose parent is either W or a subwindow of
 > W.

This is usually referred to as "descendant".  Having a completely
unrelated term suggests that maybe these are GUI subwindows or
something other than "child or child of child etc".