Switching between two different views in CSplitterWnd

[Anonymous]

Hi. please help I have associated one pane of a view created by CSplitterWnd to a CFormView derived class in OnCreateClient, now I want to switch between different CFormView classes at runtime. what is the safe way to do that? should I do that from CDocument class or... thank you

[Iain Clarke Warrior Programmer]

I know Paul Dilascia wrote an article on replacing views many years ago on MSJ[^]. You should also be able to do a search on codeproject for "replacing view" or such. Iain.

[bilas]

How about this (fragments of my code): //first of all (as example, you need to do it in your way): CMainFrame *pMainFrame=(CMainFrame*)AfxGetMainWnd(); //then change your view (pMainFrame->m_wndSplitter).ReplaceView(RUNTIME_CLASS( CRightView ), CSize(100,100)); //or (pMainFrame->m_wndSplitter).ReplaceView(RUNTIME_CLASS( CColorRight ), CSize(100,100)); Hope, this will help you, bilas.:->

[Iain Clarke Warrior Programmer]

It won't help *me* much, or anyone using MFC4.2 (comes with VC++ 6). I've just looked at the docs, and also the relevant header file, and ReplaceView is not a member of CSplitterWnd. It might be under later versions though. Behind the times, I am. If that actually is cut and paste from your code, rather than from memory, I'm surprised there's no paramater for *which* splitter view to change. Or did you have your own splitter pane which only changes (eg.) the pane on the right? Being picky, I would recommend he handles this in his CChildFrame (MDI) or CMainFrame (SDI), so the casting wouldn't be necessary. But I was lazy! But doing the search I recommended comes up with an article on how to do exactly what I think Anonymous wants.