Changing a view in an SDI.

[VanHlebar]

I have an SDI application with multiple views available. Each view is derived from CFormView and is specified with a unique dialog ID. My question is how do I change the view from one view to a user select one? I have options off of the menu bar that the user selects, this puts all the view changes inside my CMainFrm class. I don't want to destroy the original view that the application starts with, but after that all of the new views can be destroyed after they are used and moved to a new one. Any help is appreciated. -Eric

[Anatari]

I had to do this a couple of months ago and found the articles about document/view here at code project helpful. There was also several examples in the MSDN library about this subject. http://www.codeproject.com/docview/switchingviews.asp[^] - Anatari

[valikac]

Consider ShowWindow(). Kuphryn

[VanHlebar]

Anatari, Thanks for the help. I am having one problem though. When I goto create my new view using te Create method I get a compile error of "Create: cannot access protected member declared in class CFormView" Here is what I am attempting per the article you suggested. if(!m_pMyView) MyView is a class derived from CFormView { m_pMyView = new CMyView; m_pMyView->Create(NULL, NULL, AFX_WS_DEFAULT_VIEW, CFrameWnd::rectDefault, AfxGetMainWnd(), AFX_IDW_PANE_FIRST+1, NULL); } I am doing this in the OnNewDocument of my Document class. Any ideas why I get this error? I have taken the constructor and destructors of my new Vew class and made them public and removed all the DECLARE_DYNCREATE and IMPLEMENT_DYNCREATE macros from the header and source files of the class. -Eric

[deffer]

You have to override the create method in the CFormView derived class you're trying to show W. Zayas:)