Re: Homework question relating to docview
"David Wilkinson" <no-reply@effisols.com> wrote in message
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This is the message map for CDocument.
BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CDocument, CCmdTarget)
//{{AFX_MSG_MAP(CDocument)
ON_COMMAND(ID_FILE_CLOSE, OnFileClose)
ON_COMMAND(ID_FILE_SAVE, OnFileSave)
ON_COMMAND(ID_FILE_SAVE_AS, OnFileSaveAs)
//}}AFX_MSG_MAP
END_MESSAGE_MAP()
These are handlers for menu items. If I have another menu item that brings
up the color picker, and the selected color is stored in the document,
then I do not see anything wrong with the document containing the handler.
But surely you see a difference between handling opening and saving the
entire document than manipulating its contents (which is what the entire
app's purpose is). There is minimal UI in opening and saving a document,
which is using Windows standard File Open/Save dialog, so I view these
actions as more data-centric than UI-centric.
Or another, IMHO less ambiguous, example. In my application the input data
for the application is obtained from (or modified by) the user via a modal
dialog (the view is used just to display the output). This data is saved
with the document (the data *is* the document). The modal dialog is
brought up by a menu item (and a toolbar button). Do you think the
document should not handle this item? I must say that it never occurred to
me to do otherwise.
Personally, I would have the CMainFrame bring up the dialog, and if the
behavior is different depending on the active view, I would have the view do
it.
-- David
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