Environment developed: VC6 Win 2K]
To create a view you normally follow the Microsoft’s Document template model. (i.e) Single document template or multi doc template. You can pass three runtime classes to the constructors:
CSingleDocTemplate( UINT nIDResource,
CRuntimeClass* pDocClass,
CRuntimeClass* pFrameClass,
CRuntimeClass* pViewClass );
OR
CMultiDocTemplate( UINT nIDResource,
CRuntimeClass* pDocClass,
CRuntimeClass* pFrameClass,
CRuntimeClass* pViewClass );
When the document template is added, frame (child for MDI , main frame for SDI),
document, and a view is created dynamically and added to the application’s document template list.
But some times you may need to create a view without using the default document template classes. For instance, if you are to create a view in dialog, you can not use the regular way of document template. In those cases you can use the following method:
BOOL CVwindlgDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
…
CCreateContext pContext;
/**
* Note:CDialig derived pointer is converted to
* CWnd pointer (a common base class for CDialog and CFrameWnd).
* Thus casting it back to CFrameWnd is also easy.
*/
CWnd* pFrameWnd = this;
pContext.m_pCurrentDoc = new CMyDocument;
pContext.m_pNewViewClass = RUNTIME_CLASS(CMyVw);
CMyVw *pView =
(CMyVw *) ((CFrameWnd*)pFrameWnd)->CreateView(&pContext);
ASSERT(pView);
pView->ShowWindow(SW_NORMAL);
/**
* After a view is created, resize that to
* have the same size as the dialog.
*/
CRect rectWindow;
GetWindowRect(rectWindow);
/**
* Leave a little space for border and title…
*/
rectWindow.right += 15;
rectWindow.top -= 10;
pView->MoveWindow(rectWindow);
CString str(AfxGetApp()->m_lpCmdLine);
/**
* Note: “CMyVw” is a CHTMLView derived class to add some
* spice to the view, I have provided a HTML page
* to which it navigates when the dialog is up.
*/
char strPath[255];
::GetCurrentDirectory(255,(LPSTR)(LPCSTR)strPath);
strcat(strPath,”\\defaultpage.html”);
pView->Navigate(strPath);
….
return TRUE; // return TRUE unless you set the
// focus to a control
}