As far as your first question goes. The View that you are having is a normal view where u draw. If you want to put a Tree Control in there, you have couple of ways to achieve that. 1. You can try using CFormView and in the dialog box u can have tree ctrl view. 2. If you want a drawing view also with this view, you can put a frame in it and make it the parent of another view. You can do lot of different stuff just by using child parent relationship and types of views. You would be surprised to see what all. Just try a little innovation and creativity and you have it. Second question I am not sure exactly what you are trying to achieve. In any case you can create your own activeX control which contains both list ctrl and combo box etc. You can combine both of them with no big difficulty. If you are specific I would be able to help you.

:( Hi! I was wondering if you can override the default functionality for OnFileNew and OnFileOpen to have your document's view open in only one child window as it happens in an SDI application. More clarification: When we create an MDI application we get a child frame window which gets the view inside it. If we have to say FIle New then I would like to replace the existing view in the same child window with the new one. Yeah an interesting quesion is why am i going into all the troubles of MDI when this is the functionality of an SDI application, but actually I have another document template also within this application. Can somebody help me out with this. thanks rahul