Re: How to - SDI

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom@camaswood.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:14:03 -0800

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I see many have responded to your question, but I wanted to just put in that
I always build new applications as MDI even if I only plan to have one
document and/or one view. It's simple to change the menus and make the
child window fill out the whole mainframe and then if you ever want to
convert in the future (which you likely will) you can easily add the new
functionality.

That's the same reason I never use dialog applications. It is just as easy
to create a formview based MDI app and build from that.

Tom

"rockdale" <rockdale.green@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:9f08bb0a-ec24-4b33-bea4-2a35be301c99@a32g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...

Hi, all:

All my experience on MFC is dialog based application. And now I try to
learn the SDI and MDI based application. I create a sample SDI
application, but then I have no idea what is the next step I need to
do. Like if I want use can enter some data in a CEdit control, how
should I do that. Do I need to create a CDialog and then load it into
the main frame, how to load a CDialog/CView into a main frame, all the
examples on the internet are showing an empty childview, how can I
make the childview doing something?

Thanks in advance.
-Rockdale