Re: deriving helper class from CWnd

From:
"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanni.dicanio@invalid.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:15:20 +0100
Message-ID:
<#30B1bxZIHA.5980@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
"jbreher" <jbreher@discussions.microsoft.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:1E1EC48A-C610-4071-9848-7DF061FA919E@microsoft.com...

I have a simple working MFC application. All logic is within the main
CDialog. I want to refactor the functional aspects out of this CDialog
into
an 'engine' class, leaving only the UI aspects in the CDialog-derived
class.

I have successfully moved many members from the CDialog to the new engine
class. My problem is exhibited in moving a timer from the CDialog to the
new
engine class.


I think you may do something like this:

in your engine class, you can just expose a public method to handle OnTimer
events, e.g.

class Engine
{
  public:

   ...

   // Process time event
   void OnTimer();
   ...
};

then, in your CDialog derived class, in the OnTimer message handler body,
you can call the Engine::OnTimer method, e.g.

  void <your dialog or window>::OnTimer(UINT nIDEvent)
  {
      ...
      // Route call to engine OnTimer:
      m_pEngine->OnTimer();
      ...
  }

HTH,
Giovanni

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