Re: Current view pointer

From:
"Adrian" <richard.the.lionheart@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
7 Sep 2006 07:16:54 -0700
Message-ID:
<1157638614.510356.66200@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>
Ajay Kalra wrote:

In an MDI app, you can get to the active view thru the active child frame.
Something like:

CFrameWnd* pActiveFrame = GetActiveFrame();
if(pActiveFrame)
{
ASSERT_VALID(pActiveFrame);
CView* pActiveView = pActiveFrame->GetActiveView();
ASSERT_VALID(pActiveView);
..
}

--
Ajay Kalra [MVP - VC++]
ajaykalra@yahoo.com

"Adrian" <richard.the.lionheart@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1157636826.019696.155110@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

Hi folks!

I have a control bar in my MDI app. This control bar has a tree control
as a child. I am trying to do this :-

when the used clicks on an item of the tree I want to update a variable
in the currnet view class and would like to redraw the current child
frame's client area. I am using GetActiveView() to get a pointer to the
current view but the function returns NULL. What is wrong? How can get
corrent pointer?

Thanks in advance.

Romi


Thanks Ajay, that works.
A little later I found this link too:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q108587/

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