Re: Create a desired layout

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom@nospam.camaswood.com>

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microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:17:18 -0800

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The reason I find static layouts to be cumbersome is that some people will
change the size of the fonts and then there is no way to for them to resize
the dialog to get rid of the scrolling nightmare. If one does do a static
layout they should provide automatic resizing when the mainframe resizes so
that people can use their real estate effectively... just an opinion of
course. I've been locked into working on and using programs that do
otherwise so...

Tom

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
news:mh0nm49n5hdmd949veek0sopq6tf643mtd@4ax.com...

The I'd use a CFormView. If you want to be able to resize the elements by
dragging their
borders, this is just some mouse hacking and a bit of arithmetic. Not
that hard to do.
You can download a simple example from my MVP Tips site (Thread Affinity
Explorer) and see
what I did there, and generalize it.
joe
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:38:05 -0800, 97612
<97612@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

It's always a static layout, and all six panes are always displayed.

and the reason why doc/view is used is that I want all the image effect
operation can be done in DOC.

I don't understand what you mean?!

"Joseph M. Newcomer" wrote:

Is this always a static layout? Is it really a doc/view requirement?
Will all six panes
always be displayed?

I'd be tempted to just do the six panes in a CFormView and do my own
resizing. Or just do
a dialog-based app (depends on the needs for status bar, printing,
etc.). It isn't very
hard to do this (see, for example, my Thread Affinity Explorer that has
a resizable window
on a dialog-based app)
joe

On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:11:01 -0800, HSNU_976
<HSNU_976@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Hi, all

The following is my desired UI layout:

--------------------------------------
| 1 |
--------------------------------------
| 2 | 3 | |
| | | |
------------------------- 6 |
| 4 | 5 | |
| | | |
--------------------------------------

The region 2 is the tree view of the folders in my local PC, and region
3
will show the thumbnails of image files that in the folder selected in
the
region 2.

The region 4 is the tree view of the folders in remote PC(I've created
a
local folder in my PC for it, so it just a local folder in my PC in
developement stage), and region 5 wil show the thumbnails of image
files that
in the folder selected in the region 4.

The region 1 will show the selected image files in the region 3.

The region 6 have some functions that can perform on the selected image
file
in the region 3.

Is any one can tell how to achieve that!?

Below are what I thought:
Use SDI.
Also write a MyMainFrame class with CSplitterWnd that split the main
frame
into six region.
Then write a DOC class and six VIEWs for each region.
But I don't know how to bound and use the VIEWs and DOC with
MyMainFrame
that can achieve my desired goal.

Thanks for your anwsers.

Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: newcomer@flounder.com
Web: http://www.flounder.com
MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm

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