>> The fun thing is, half the stuff is talking about *actual* windows. 
> 
> Qt did better. Everything is a widget, and windows (main window, toolbar 
> window, dock window) are kinds of widgets.

Yeah. AWT did this. Smalltalk did this. Most people did this, actually. 
(Except Tk. :-P )

> Maybe Win32 inherited the terminology from X10/X11?

Yeah, perhaps.

> Of course, when you get actual OO with actual inheritance and such, it 
> becomes a lot easier.

For sure. ;-)

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