This article demonstrates how to use a static splitter window in a traditional SDI document-view architecture. The article shows how to design an application that can switch between a single view and a splitter window that can embed as many panes as necessary.
The solution consists of embedding a pointer to a CSplitterWnd in CMainFrame, as opposed to the recommended way of embedding the CSplitterWnd object. Later, when the application needs to switch from the regular view to the splitter window, this splitter window is created on the heap and initialized by using CreateStatic(), while the regular view is destroyed.
NOTE: To avoid destruction of the CDocument-derived object when the view is destroyed, you need to set its m_bAutoDelete data member to FALSE.
You can easily expand the code to support static splitter windows with different numbers of panes, depending on some run-time conditions.
CMyDoc::CMyDoc()
{
m_bAutoDelete = FALSE;
}
CMainFrame::OnClose()
{
GetActiveDocument()->m_bAutoDelete = TRUE;
CFrameWnd::OnClose();
}
class CMainFrame : public CFrameWnd
{
...
protected:
CSplitterWnd *m_pSplitter;
...
};
CMainFrame::CMainFrame()
{
// TODO: add member initialization code here.
m_pSplitter = NULL;
}
CMainFrame::~CMainFrame()
{
if (m_pSplitter)
delete m_pSplitter;
}
#include "MyDoc.h"
#include "MyView.h"
#include "Pane1View.h"
#include "Pane2View.h"
void CMainFrame::OnUpdateViewSplitterWnd(CCmdUI* pCmdUI) { // TODO: Add your command update UI handler code here. pCmdUI->SetCheck(m_pSplitter!=NULL); } void CMainFrame::OnViewSplitterWnd() { // TODO: Add your command handler code here. CCreateContext ctx; ctx.m_pNewViewClass = RUNTIME_CLASS(CMyView); // GetActiveDocument() call before you destroy m_splitter. ctx.m_pCurrentDoc = GetActiveDocument(); ASSERT(ctx.m_pCurrentDoc!=NULL); // m_pSplitter !=NULL when there is a visible splitter. if (m_pSplitter) { // Destroy splitter window. delete m_pSplitter; m_pSplitter = NULL; // Create and initialize CMyView. SetActiveView((CView*)CreateView(&ctx)); GetActiveView()->OnInitialUpdate(); } else { // Destroy CMyView. GetActiveView()->DestroyWindow(); // Create new splitter window. m_pSplitter = new CSplitterWnd; if (!m_pSplitter->CreateStatic(this, 1, 2)) { TRACE0("Can´t create splitter window.\n"); return; } else { if ((!m_pSplitter->CreateView(0, 0, RUNTIME_CLASS(CPane1View), CSize(200, 0), &ctx)) ||(!m_pSplitter->CreateView(0, 1, RUNTIME_CLASS(CPane2View), CSize(500, 0), &ctx))) { TRACE0("Can´t create one of the splitter panes.\n"); return; } // Initialize the two panes (each containing a view // associated with the current document). ((CView*)m_pSplitter->GetPane(0, 0))->OnInitialUpdate(); ((CView*)m_pSplitter->GetPane(0, 1))->OnInitialUpdate(); SetActiveView((CView*)m_pSplitter->GetPane(0, 0)); } } // Redisplay frame. RecalcLayout(); }
| Published | Dec 8 1998 9:32PM | Issue Type | kbhowto |
| Last Modifed | Jul 17 2001 4:32PM | Additional Query Words | |
| Keywords | kbDocView kbMFC KbUIDesign kbVC420 kbVC500 kbVC600 kbGrpDSMFCATL | ||