Re: Multiple main windows in MFC application ....

From:
"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 07:35:04 -0800
Message-ID:
<G_Goj.9875$EZ3.8616@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com>
<adam_mich@gazeta.pl> wrote in message
news:a69627ca-30a2-42b9-a020-3972dca04aef@v67g2000hse.googlegroups.com...

I tried to create a few main windows / non-modal dialogs /, but MFC
app doesn't want to run without m_pMainWnd set. I can't set this
variable to, lets say, the first window, because I don't know in which
order they will be destroyed.
Finally I created some invisible / message-only, in fact / window as
my main window and it worked but it is probably not the best way to
do it.


In the OnDestroy() of all your main windows, you could do something like

   if ( AfxGetMainWnd() == this ) // set mainwnd to another window so app
isn't destroyed
        CMyApp::m_pMainWnd = /* another of your main windows */;

Next problem is destroying windows. I have something like that :

CMyApp::InitInstance()
{
InitApp(); //create windows, load settings
Run();
ExitApp(); // save state, position and destroy windows
return FALSE;
}

but unfortunately, when I destroyed the first one, the rest is auto
destroyed. Do you know if it is a standard Windows behaviour or some
MFC "enhacement" ? Can it be changed ?


Why do you return FALSE from InitInstance()? I would return TRUE and let
the message pump run. I've only seen InitInstance() return FALSE if you
call CDialog::DoModal() to show the app's main window as a modal dialog, and
then you return FALSE when DoModal() returns.

-- David

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