Stuck with Tabbed View dynamic creation

From:
nassim.bouayad.agha@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:02:38 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<1619b548-61ee-41b6-a88a-edb0bd8b327d@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
Hello,
I am currently developping an application which requires dynamic view
creation in a single document interface application (SDI).
Each view is of the same type.I have based my code on a tutorial found
on CodeGuru/CodeProject.
Here is the code which creates a new "watch view":
void CMainFrame::OnWatchesNew()
{
    int lViewIndex = (int)mViewsVector.size();
    CRuntimeClass* lViewRuntimeClass = RUNTIME_CLASS(CProcessMemoryView);

    CCreateContext context;
    context.m_pCurrentDoc = GetActiveDocument();
    context.m_pCurrentFrame = this;
    context.m_pLastView = GetActiveView();
    context.m_pNewViewClass = lViewRuntimeClass;
    context.m_pNewDocTemplate = GetActiveDocument()->GetDocTemplate();

    TCITEM lItem={0};
    if(mTabCtrl.InsertItem(lViewIndex,&lItem)==-1)
        return;

    CView*
pView=DYNAMIC_DOWNCAST(CView,CreateView(&context,AFX_IDW_PANE_FIRST
+lViewIndex+1));
    if(NULL==pView)
    {
        return;
    }
    mViewsVector.push_back(pView);
    CProcessMemoryDoc* lDocument =
static_cast<CProcessMemoryDoc*>(GetActiveDocument());
    std::basic_string<TCHAR> lWatchName = lDocument-
GetAvailableWatchName();
    
lItem.mask = TCIF_TEXT;
    lItem.pszText = (LPWSTR)lWatchName.c_str();
    mTabCtrl.SetItem(lViewIndex,&lItem);
    lDocument->AddWatch(lWatchName);
    int nCurSel=mTabCtrl.GetCurSel();
    if(nCurSel!=-1)
    {
        mViewsVector[nCurSel]->ShowWindow(SW_HIDE);
    }
    mTabCtrl.SetCurSel(lViewIndex);
    pView->ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);
    pView->OnInitialUpdate();
    pView->SetActiveWindow();
    RecalcLayout();
    SetActiveView(pView);
    RepositionWindows();

}
with:
void
CMainFrame::RepositionWindows()
{
    if(NULL==mTabCtrl.m_hWnd)
        return;

    CView* p = GetActiveView();
    if(NULL==p)
        return;
    if(NULL==p->m_hWnd)
        return;

    CRect r;
    mTabCtrl.GetClientRect(r);

    mTabCtrl.AdjustRect(FALSE,r);
    mTabCtrl.ClientToScreen(r);
    ScreenToClient(r);

    p->MoveWindow(r,TRUE);

}
The problem is that the new view is not refreshed correctly (rows does
not appear,....),I have tried nearly everything,with no success...
If I defines views in the OnCreateClient functions,it works well :
BOOL
CMainFrame::OnCreateClient(LPCREATESTRUCT lpcs, CCreateContext*
pContext)
{
    CRuntimeClass* lViewRuntimeClass = RUNTIME_CLASS(CProcessMemoryView);
  mTabFont.CreateFont(12, 0, 0, 0, FW_NORMAL, FALSE, FALSE,
0,ANSI_CHARSET, OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS, CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS,
DEFAULT_QUALITY, DEFAULT_PITCH, _T("Arial"));

    // Create tab control
    if(!mTabCtrl.Create(WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|
TCS_BOTTOM,CRect(0,0,0,0),this,AFX_IDW_PANE_FIRST))
        return FALSE;

    mTabCtrl.SetFont(&mTabFont,TRUE);

    TCITEM lItem={0};
    if(mTabCtrl.InsertItem(0,&lItem)==-1)
        return FALSE;

    pContext->m_pNewViewClass=lViewRuntimeClass;
    CWnd* pView=CreateView(pContext,AFX_IDW_PANE_FIRST+1);
    if(NULL==pView)
    {
        TRACE("CMainFrame::OnCreateClient -E- can not create view\r");
        return FALSE;
    }
    mViewsVector.push_back(DYNAMIC_DOWNCAST(CView,pView));
    SetActiveView(DYNAMIC_DOWNCAST(CView,pView));
    CProcessMemoryDoc* lDocument =
static_cast<CProcessMemoryDoc*>(GetActiveDocument());
    std::basic_string<TCHAR> lWatchName = lDocument-
GetAvailableWatchName();

    
lItem.mask = TCIF_TEXT;
    lItem.pszText = (LPWSTR)lWatchName.c_str();
    mTabCtrl.SetItem(0,&lItem);
    lDocument->AddWatch(lWatchName);

    return true;
}
Any idea?
Thank you in advance.
Nassim.

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