# enaml.widgets.mdi_area

Classes

`MdiArea` | A widget which acts as a virtual window manager for other top level widget.

class enaml.widgets.mdi_area.MdiArea(parent=None, **kwargs)

  Bases: `ConstraintsWidget`

  A widget which acts as a virtual window manager for other top level widget.

  An MdiArea can be used to provide an area within an application that can display other widgets in their own independent windows. Children of an MdiArea should be defined as instances of MdiWindow.

  hug_width

    An MdiArea expands freely in width and height by default.

  hug_height

    How strongly a widget hugs it’s height hint. This is equivalent to the constraint:

        (height == hint) | hug_height

  resist_width

    An MdiArea resists clipping only weakly by default.

  resist_height

    How strongly a widget resists clipping its height hint. This is equivalent to the constraint:

        (height >= hint) | resist_height

  proxy

    A reference to the ProxyMdiArea object.

  mdi_windows()

    Get the mdi windows defined for the area.

  tile_mdi_windows()

    Tile the mdi windows of this area.

    Notes

    For the time being the ordering is left to the backend. In the future, a way to influence it may be added.

  cascade_mdi_windows()

    Cascade the mdi windows of this area.

    Notes

    For the time being the ordering is left to the backend. In the future, a way to influence it may be added.

  child_added(child)

    Ensure that added children are visible if they are supposed to.

  activated

    An event fired when an object’s proxy is activated. It is triggered once during the object lifetime, at the end of the activate_proxy method.

  background

    The background color of the widget.

  destroyed

    An event fired when an object has been destroyed. It is triggered once during the object lifetime, just before the object is removed from the tree structure.

  enabled

    Whether or not the widget is enabled.

  initialized

    An event fired when an object is initialized. It is triggered once during the object lifetime, at the end of the initialize method.

  name

    Export the ‘name’ attribute as a declarative member.

  style_class

    The style class to which this item belongs. Multiple classes can be separated with whitespace. An empty string indicates the widget does not belong to any style class.