Adding a another View/Frame to a document

[zspirit]

My document has multiple views. I am adding another view whose frame class is different and it initial size comes up to zero (just the title bar of the window shows up).

        CChildFrame* pNewFrame = (CChildFrame*) theApp.m_pMyDocTemplate->CreateNewFrame( pDoc, pFrame );

        // create new view
        if (pNewFrame != NULL )
            pNewFrame->InitialUpdateFrame(pDoc, TRUE);

I have other views added too and they work fine. I know the difference is that these other views have the same CFrameWnd in the CMultiDocTemplate but this new view has a difference frame class

m_pTestDocTemplate = new CMultiDocTemplate(
        IDR_MAINFRAME, 
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CTestDoc),
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CChildFrame), 
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CTestView));
    AddDocTemplate(m_pTestDocTemplate);

m_pTest2DocTemplate = new CMultiDocTemplate(
        IDR_MAINFRAME, 
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CTestDoc),
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CChildFrame), 
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CTest2View));
    AddDocTemplate(m_pTest2DocTemplate);

m_pTest3DocTemplate = new CMultiDocTemplate(
        IDR_MAINFRAME, 
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CTestDoc),
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CChildCustomFrame), // custom MDI child frame
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CTest3View));
    AddDocTemplate(m_pTestDocTemplate);

As you can see from the definitions, when I add m_pTest2DocTemplate it works fine because the CChildFrame is the same but adding m_pTest3DocTemplate starts the new view in zero size perhaps because of different frame class?

What is the strategy to add the view if their is a different frame class involved as well? The custom frame class that I am using controls the sizing requirements of the view in my case.

[ProgramArtist]

Hi,

Can you tell us a little bit more about the error you get? Is there a compile time error or a runtime error (Assertion possibly?)?

If you get an assertion step into the MFC code. Often you'll see what happened and why the assertion came up.

With regards
Programartist

[bhushan1980]

What the heck...I hope you have mistyped the code here...or else...

m_pTestDocTemplate = new CMultiDocTemplate(
        IDR_MAINFRAME, 
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CTestDoc),
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CChildFrame), 
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CTestView));
    AddDocTemplate(m_pTestDocTemplate);

m_pTest2DocTemplate = new CMultiDocTemplate(
        IDR_MAINFRAME, 
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CTestDoc),
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CChildFrame), 
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CTest2View));
    AddDocTemplate(m_pTest2DocTemplate);

m_pTest3DocTemplate = new CMultiDocTemplate(
        IDR_MAINFRAME, 
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CTestDoc),
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CChildCustomFrame), // custom MDI child frame
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CTest3View));
    AddDocTemplate(m_pTestDocTemplate);

Did u find the error yet? In the third doc template, u r adding the reference to the first doc template. I believe this is the error...
Just change m_pTestDocTemplate in 3rd case to m_pTest3DocTemplate...

Regards,
Bhushan

[zspirit]

What the heck...I hope you have mistyped the code here...or else...

Sorry about it but it is just a typo in the post. I simply renamed the variable names.

I don't get any compiler error. The problem is just that the new view/frame shows in zero size, it's only the title bar you see. I can than resize the window to make it bigger but initital size is just the smallest possible.

My suspiction is confirmed though, if I change the frame class to match it to the rest of the group, my window shows up in proper size.

m_pTest3DocTemplate = new CMultiDocTemplate(
        IDR_MAINFRAME, 
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CTestDoc),
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CChildFrame), // CChildCustomFrame
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CTest3View));
    AddDocTemplate(m_pTest3DocTemplate)

But I want to be able to use a new frame class with the new view, how can I do that?

[zspirit]

I found the mistake. It was not the fact that it was a different frame. The frame is getting resized to an image displayed in the view but when view is created, the image is not initialized yet - is zero so window size is zero.

I am displaying this image from the document. First I am creating new view/frame and than you use UpdateAllViews() to pass the view to display the image.

The problem is that my frame needs to be adjusted to the image size so I would really like to have access to the image when frame is created. Is there a way I can pass the image to the view at the time of creation?