Replace dialog in FormView
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I have a SDI app using FormView that's not resizable but will have a large and small size. I would like to create small and large dialogs and then have the view display the correct dialog depending on user choice. I don't want to use multiple views because I don't want to recode handlers, etc. My plan is to i.e. have button ID_OK1 in small dialog and button ID_OK2 in large dialog both to to OnOK() so my code only has to be written once. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, John
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I have a SDI app using FormView that's not resizable but will have a large and small size. I would like to create small and large dialogs and then have the view display the correct dialog depending on user choice. I don't want to use multiple views because I don't want to recode handlers, etc. My plan is to i.e. have button ID_OK1 in small dialog and button ID_OK2 in large dialog both to to OnOK() so my code only has to be written once. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, John
If it is just about the size of the dialog, isn't resizing the child windows based on the user selection a simpler choice? I have seen articles on CP that show how to do that.
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If it is just about the size of the dialog, isn't resizing the child windows based on the user selection a simpler choice? I have seen articles on CP that show how to do that.
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I was thinking about doing resizing but I have another app that allows resizing and it was a bit tedious to change control sizes, rearrange based on the new window size and update font sizes. I was hoping to layout 2 dialogs in the resource editor and then just switch between the two. Is there an easier way to resize controls instead of calc window size, scale controls then move to new relative positions?
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I was thinking about doing resizing but I have another app that allows resizing and it was a bit tedious to change control sizes, rearrange based on the new window size and update font sizes. I was hoping to layout 2 dialogs in the resource editor and then just switch between the two. Is there an easier way to resize controls instead of calc window size, scale controls then move to new relative positions?
TBH, I never had to do resizing seriously, so I can't say anything useful about that. :) About your original issue, I just felt that resizing would be a lot less code, and bloat, than mapping events from both the forms to some base class, friend class etc and processing them.
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TBH, I never had to do resizing seriously, so I can't say anything useful about that. :) About your original issue, I just felt that resizing would be a lot less code, and bloat, than mapping events from both the forms to some base class, friend class etc and processing them.
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I actually did find something useful. Adding this line to the CFormView constructor lets you use any dialog for the form view: CMFCView::CMFCView() : CFormView(CMFCsdi2View::IDD) { m_lpszTemplateName = MAKEINTRESOURCE(View_IDD_TO_USE); } So at run time I can set View_IDD_TO_USE to the resource for IDD_DIALOG1 or IDD_DIALOG2. The form view then gets created with whichever of the resources I choose. I create the event handlers in the view, i.e. OnOK(). The controls in each dialog need to be the same including names so that when the view creates the handlers they can be mapped, i.e. there must be a control named ID_OK on each dialog so the view can correctly map ID_OK to OnOK(). That means no duplicated code, only two dialogs which doesn't add to much overhead. This works great for what I'm doing. Thanks to Scott McPhillips for the direction.