Re: newbie Question: Data exchange between Dialog and my own data structure

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:22:36 -0700
Message-ID:
<E4EE7CA3-9D57-44C2-BD74-FB2C7FF03339@microsoft.com>
You could assign a pointer to your data in the dialog before starting it up
and then just send a message to it (from wherever the data changes) to
instruct it to update itself by drawing data from that object (sort of like
a document).

If you are using a doc/view paradigm you could keep your data in the
document and use UpdateAllViews() to update the data.

Tom

"asm23" <asmwarrior@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:fsf6jp$2f4$1@news.cn99.com...

HI, I'm designing a program which has many CDialog(as docking control bar)
and user data structures. I want to do some data exchange on those. For
example:
//==================================================================
class CConfigDlg : public CDialog
{
...
//many common control such as CEdit...
}

class CMyData{
...
//many data members...

}
//==================================================================
When I initialize the dialog, or some data hase changed in working
thread,I want to update UI in using UpdateData(false);

When I made some modification on the UI control and Press "APPLY", these
change could to applied to CMyData.

But my CMyData is not the member of CConfigDlg, Maybe, CMyData is a member
of CMainFrame or some other's.

So, What's the best method to exchange data between UI dialog and data
structures? I found one kind of method to do this--Adding pointers to each
other and add "friend" keyword.
//==================================================================
class CConfigDlg : public CDialog
{
...
//many common control such as CEdit...
CMyData * m_pData;
friend CMyData;
}

class CMyData{
...
//many data members...
CConfigDlg * m_pdlg;
friend CConfigDlg;

}
//==================================================================

Then, class can operation each other through "Pointers", Is this a good
method? or Someone can give me more suggestion? Which kind of books cover
these topics?
Thanks.

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