Re: Tile MDI children windows

From:
Ajay Kalra <ajaykalra@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 4 Feb 2008 07:09:00 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<665fe0d5-786f-4255-a929-be165e08fc9e@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Feb 3, 8:38 pm, "ou" <o...@ab.auone-net.jp> wrote:

Env: WindowsXP, VC++6.00

In the sample of chkbook, multiviews are created as follows,

CDocument* CChkBookApp::OpenDocumentFile(LPCTSTR lpszFileName)
{
 CChkBookDoc* pDoc = (CChkBookDoc*)CWinApp::OpenDocumentFile(lpszFileName);
 if (pDoc == NULL)
  return NULL;

 CFrameWnd* pNewFrame = m_pCheckViewTemplate->CreateNewFrame(pDoc, NULL);
 if (pNewFrame == NULL)
  return pDoc;

 m_pCheckViewTemplate->InitialUpdateFrame(pNewFrame, pDoc);

 // Tile the two MDI children windows within the MDI frame window.
 ASSERT_KINDOF(CMDIChildWnd, pNewFrame);
 CMDIFrameWnd* pMDIFrameWnd = ((CMDIChildWnd*)pNewFrame)->GetMDIFrame();
 ASSERT(pMDIFrameWnd != NULL);
 pMDIFrameWnd->MDITile(MDITILE_HORIZONTAL);

 return pDoc;

}

If you run it on a computer with slow speed CPU, you can find that these two
windows are showed by Cascade firstly, and then by HORIZONTAL next.

I wonder if it is possible to tile these children windows directly since my
app will have 8 views.

TIA
ou


You can probaly use LockWindowUpdate/UnlockWindowUpdate to do this:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kc4ez6dk(VS.80).aspx

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Ajay

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