Multiple views for a single document (MDI) 3

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This package differ from other package from the point of view that it didn’t tells you what to do. Its doing it. You can use it exactly like other MFC doc template class.

One of my biggest problems was to have multiple view using a Single document. To achieve that, I’ve create a class that act like a standard document template class. This class implements a single document interface with multiple view.

I basically start by creating a class that derived from a multiple document interface. I modify it to support only one document. The reason I didn’t derived from a single document interface is because the architecture of MFC require the use of a MDIDocTemplate to use with a MDIChildFrame.

Here is the architecture diagrams.

This is a sample on how to use it in you Application class. For further information, take a look at the sample application zip files.

    CSDIMVDocTemplate *pDocTemplate = new CSDIMVDocTemplate( IDR_MVTESTTYPE, RUNTIME_CLASS( CMvTestDoc ) );
    pDocTemplate->AddFrameTemplate(
        new CFrameTemplate(
            IDR_MV1,
            RUNTIME_CLASS( CChildFrame1 ),
            RUNTIME_CLASS( CView1 ),
            ID_VIEW_VIEW1,
            SW_SHOWNORMAL,
            TRUE ) );

    pDocTemplate->AddFrameTemplate(
        new CFrameTemplate(
            IDR_MV2,
            RUNTIME_CLASS( CChildFrame1 ),
            RUNTIME_CLASS( CView2 ),
            ID_VIEW_VIEW2,
            SW_SHOWNORMAL,
            TRUE ) );

    pDocTemplate->AddFrameTemplate(
        new CFrameTemplate(
            IDR_MV3,
            RUNTIME_CLASS( CChildFrame2 ),
            RUNTIME_CLASS( CView3 ),
            ID_VIEW_VIEW3,
            SW_SHOWNORMAL,
            TRUE ) );

    pDocTemplate->AddFrameTemplate(
        new CFrameTemplate(
            IDR_MV4,
            RUNTIME_CLASS( CChildFrame2 ),
            RUNTIME_CLASS( CView4 ),
            ID_VIEW_VIEW4,
            SW_SHOWNORMAL,
            TRUE ) );

    AddDocTemplate( pDocTemplate );
    m_server.ConnectTemplate( clsid, pDocTemplate, FALSE );

Now the extension support MDI Multiple view too!

    CMDIMVDocTemplate *pDocTemplate = new CMDIMVDocTemplate( IDR_MVTESTTYPE, RUNTIME_CLASS( CMvTestDoc ) );
    pDocTemplate->AddFrameTemplate(
        new CFrameTemplate(
            IDR_MV1,
            RUNTIME_CLASS( CChildFrame1 ),
            RUNTIME_CLASS( CView1 ),
            ID_VIEW_VIEW1,
            SW_SHOWNORMAL,
            TRUE ) );

    pDocTemplate->AddFrameTemplate(
        new CFrameTemplate(
            IDR_MV2,
            RUNTIME_CLASS( CChildFrame1 ),
            RUNTIME_CLASS( CView2 ),
            ID_VIEW_VIEW2,
            SW_SHOWNORMAL,
            TRUE ) );

    pDocTemplate->AddFrameTemplate(
        new CFrameTemplate(
            IDR_MV3,
            RUNTIME_CLASS( CChildFrame2 ),
            RUNTIME_CLASS( CView3 ),
            ID_VIEW_VIEW3,
            SW_SHOWNORMAL,
            TRUE ) );

    pDocTemplate->AddFrameTemplate(
        new CFrameTemplate(
            IDR_MV4,
            RUNTIME_CLASS( CChildFrame2 ),
            RUNTIME_CLASS( CView4 ),
            ID_VIEW_VIEW4,
            SW_SHOWNORMAL,
            TRUE ) );

    AddDocTemplate( pDocTemplate );
    m_server.ConnectTemplate( clsid, pDocTemplate, FALSE );

Download demo project – 76 KB

Download source – 11 KB