Re: Explorer Style
"Al" <Al@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F7AF2E8C-75A8-4498-9C0C-8D8FFB4214A1@microsoft.com...
I guess what I am trying to say is if I have a SDI, explorer style,
docoment
view archetecture and I want to replace the right hand view with a
different
view from making a selection from the main menu or from a selection from
the
tree control in the left view, where would I add code to make that happen?
Would it be in one class or 2? And which classe(s) would be correct
one(s)?
The splitter window is a member of the CMainFrame and is a child window of
CMainFrame. The CMainFrame receives menu/toolbar commands and creates the
splitter and its child panes. So this is logically where the action should
be to replace the right hand view in the splitter. You would add a handler
for the menu command in the CMainFrame and switch the view in or from that
function.
Since you also want to initiate the view switch from something in the left
view, the left view can use AfxGetMainWnd() to call a CMainFrame function to
do the job.
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