It's fine. I figured it out. In the past when I have added a command handler for a menu item, I have always just used the default in the drop down which is mainfrm. I removed that one, and selected my dialog in the list this time. It put the menu command handler in my document class this time, and all the data I want to display is in that class, so easy solution. :) Thanks for all the help.

I'll give the suggestions a try. Thank you. When I use the classwizard to create the onclick event, it put it in MainFrame: void CMainFrame::OnToolsShpproperties() { CDLGShpFileBreakdown dlgSHPBreakdown; dlgSHPBreakdown.DoModal(); } Your code will still work?

I have made a sdi application in MFC. I added a menu item, and a routine when it is clicked. That routine creates an instance of, and displays, an information dialog I created. What I need to do though is display some information in that dialog from the loaded in document. The biggest problem I always seem to have is finding out how to access the document in another class like my dialog class. So I am wondering what I need to do to get a document pointer to my dialog class. Either by passing it in from MainFrm when I create the dialog, or better yet, have my dialog class itself get a pointer to the document. Anyone have any ideas or code samples? I notice my view class has something like: CDXtoXDDoc* CDXtoXDView::GetDocument() // non-debug version is inline { ASSERT(m_pDocument->IsKindOf(RUNTIME_CLASS(CDXtoXDDoc))); return (CDXtoXDDoc*)m_pDocument; }

I have a background in my CListCtrl. I don't want it to scroll though. How does one stop that from happening? Thanks for any help.