how to use "OnNewDocument" from cview or cmainframe class

[chaitannya_m]

Hi everyone, I am using an activex control which i have inserted onto a formview of an mdi application.when i press File->new option i get a new window with the activex in it. Now i want to implement the same funtionality on a button press. i want the same results as that of File->New.How do i achieve it from the CFormView or the Cmainframe class.

[Mark Salsbery]

Maybe something like this:

if (AfxGetApp()->m_pDocManager)
AfxGetApp()->m_pDocManager->OnFileNew();

Mark

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[chaitannya_m]

O' My God that really worked like magic.. But how do i get a pointer to each view. I want to pass data to the view

[Mark Salsbery]

:) I'm glad it worked. That's how MFC does it but it's using an undocumented variable (although it's worked for as long as I can remember). You probably could just give your button the id ID_FILE_NEW and it would have worked like magic too :) I thought for sure someone here would jump on me for that one LOL.

chaitannya_m wrote:

But how do i get a pointer to each view. I want to pass data to the view

Which view? The one just created? The view just created should be the active view. To get the active view in MDI;

// this is the MFC example from the docs

CMDIFrameWnd *pFrame =
(CMDIFrameWnd*)AfxGetApp()->m_pMainWnd;

// Get the active MDI child window.
CMDIChildWnd *pChild =
(CMDIChildWnd *) pFrame->GetActiveFrame();

// or CMDIChildWnd *pChild = pFrame->MDIGetActive();

// Get the active view attached to the active MDI child
// window.
CMyView *pView = (CMyView *) pChild->GetActiveView();

To iterate through all views, one way is to iterate through all documents and their associated views:

// Iterate through doc templates

POSITION DocTemplatePos = AfxGetApp()->GetFirstDocTemplatePosition();
while (DocTemplatePos != NULL)
{
CDocTemplate *pTmpl = AfxGetApp()->GetNextDocTemplate(DocTemplatePos);

// Iterate through documents for the current template

POSITION DocPos = pTmpl->GetFirstDocPosition();
while (DocPos != NULL)
{
CDocument *pDoc = pTmpl->GetNextDoc(DocPos);

  **// Iterate through views for the current document**

  // You could use CDocument::UpdateAllViews() or ...

  POSITION ViewPos = pDoc->GetFirstViewPosition();
  while (ViewPos != NULL)
  {
     CView \*pView = pDoc->GetNextView(ViewPos);

     **// Do something with the current view**
  }

}
}

Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ "Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn."