Re: Preventing CFrameWnd derived resizing

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:09:09 -0700
Message-ID:
<DB36D86B-7726-4ADA-A3AA-6D0140D86B56@microsoft.com>
You could use some code like this (in your frame of course, don't know if
that's the mainframe or not):

Ovveride PreCreateWindow() in your mainframe window:

BOOL CMainFrame::PreCreateWindow(CREATESTRUCT& cs)
{
      // call default implementation
      if( !CFrameWnd::PreCreateWindow(cs) )
            return FALSE;

      // fix the dimension
      cs.cx = 800;
      cs.cy = 600;

      // disable sizing
      cs.style &= ~WS_THICKFRAME;

      return TRUE;
}

Or, you could override:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cs9c0kfx(VS.80).aspx

And just not call the base class (and force the window to stay the right
size).

Tom

"Newsgroupie" <buzbymb@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:993d40b6-664f-4e67-ac76-fd434557fc85@f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...

Hello fellow newsgroupies,

I have some CFrameWnd derived classes (both child and popup windows)
which display various CView derived windows. I want to prevent them
from being resized (larger or smaller) but still allow them to be
minimized and 'maximized' back to their fixed sizes.

How can I do this? Do I have to modify the views, the frames or both?

Many thanks in advance,

'Newsgroupie'
England

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