Re: print preview in an MDI app

From:
"AliR" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:11:00 -0500
Message-ID:
<44d3b81f$0$23780$a8266bb1@reader.corenews.com>
CFormView does not support Printing or Print Preview. How are you getting
it do a Print Preview in the first place?

AliR.

"markww" <markww@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1154725605.388152.59230@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

Hi,

I have a standard MDI app taht has two view classes as possible
document types:

    CViewImage
    CFormViewChart

The user can have both view types open at the same time. My problem is
that when the user chooses to do print preview on the second type of
class (CFormChartView) then clicks the print button, my app crashes.

I'm guessing this is because both class types have the following in
their message maps:

    CViewImage:
    ON_COMMAND(ID_FILE_PRINT_DIRECT, CView::OnFilePrint)

    CFormViewChart:
    ON_COMMAND(ID_FILE_PRINT_DIRECT, CFormView::OnFilePrint)

So when the print preview window fills the cview/cformview frame, and
the user hits the print button, I think some badness is occurring here
because they're both mapped to that id?

Any ideas would be great,

Thanks

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