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I want to split an MDIFrame like DevStudio does : I want some sort of
directory view on the left hand side and the area where the document
windows may reside on the right hand side:

+---------------------------------------------+
!Directory!!                                  !
!         !! +-----+                          !
!         !! !MDI  !    +-----------------+   !
!         !! !CHILD!    ! MDI CHILD       !   !
!         !! +-----+    !  +----------------+ !
!         !!            !  ! MDI CHILD      ! !
!         !!            !  !                ! !
!         !!            !  !                ! !
!         !!            +--!                ! !
!         !!               !                ! !
!         !!               +----------------+ !
!         !!                                  !
+---------++----------------------------------!
          ^^ Split bar

I guess that it is not that easy because a CSplitterWnd can only contain
views and not windows so the CSplitterWnd cannot be directly used as
child of the CMDIFrameWnd.

Does anyone know how Microsoft did it or how to implement it in general?

Regards,
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--------------------------------===>--____>   until one reaches
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     I'm not absolutely sure of this...but it looks to me that they created
resizable docking bars (the child windows that provide a platform for the
toolbars and other stuff).  Look in the MFC source code for the layouts of
CControlBar, CDockBar, and so on.  These are really hard to mess with
though, since Microsoft saw fit to leave most of the MFC control bar classes
undocumented...thank's Bill.  Just take a normal docking bar and draw a
splitter-bar along the edge of it according to which side of the frame it's
stuck to.  Then just wait for a mouse drag to resize and redraw it and
adjust the child controls accordingly.  Easier said than done though.

Darkwing

P.S.  You ought to read "MFC Internals" by George Shepherd and Scot Wingo.
It's got a good explaination of MFC's control bar implementation.

Gerhard Huebner wrote in article

Quote:>I want to split an MDIFrame like DevStudio does : I want some sort of
>directory view on the left hand side and the area where the document
>windows may reside on the right hand side:

>+---------------------------------------------+
>!Directory!!                                  !
>!         !! +-----+                          !
>!         !! !MDI  !    +-----------------+   !
>!         !! !CHILD!    ! MDI CHILD       !   !
>!         !! +-----+    !  +----------------+ !
>!         !!            !  ! MDI CHILD      ! !
>!         !!            !  !                ! !
>!         !!            !  !                ! !
>!         !!            +--!                ! !
>!         !!               !                ! !
>!         !!               +----------------+ !
>!         !!                                  !
>+---------++----------------------------------!
>          ^^ Split bar

>I guess that it is not that easy because a CSplitterWnd can only contain
>views and not windows so the CSplitterWnd cannot be directly used as
>child of the CMDIFrameWnd.

>Does anyone know how Microsoft did it or how to implement it in general?

>Regards,
>--
>Dipl.-Phys. Gerhard Huebner        __
>Institute of Astronautics          \ \____   "Not a plucky hero
>--------------------------------===>--____>   until one reaches
>Technical University of Munich     /_/        the Great Wall"
>Tel.: +49-89-289-16015, Fax: 16004
>http://www.lrt.mw.tu-muenchen.de/personen/ghuebner/ghuebner.html

No, I realy don't know how MS does it (who cares anyway), but I can try to
explain how I solved this problem:
I used a CDialogBar and implemented some functtionality there for resizing
by watching mousemoves a little bit closer and draw some lines for a
lookalike slider. This bar had a treectrl as a child, which was resized by
the parent. this solution allowes everything the msdev studio tree does and
leaves the frame window untouched.
cu Jens Peter Kleinau

Quote:> I want to split an MDIFrame like DevStudio does : I want some sort of
> directory view on the left hand side and the area where the document
> windows may reside on the right hand side:

> +---------------------------------------------+
> !Directory!!                                  !
> !         !! +-----+                          !
> !         !! !MDI  !    +-----------------+   !
> !         !! !CHILD!    ! MDI CHILD       !   !
> !         !! +-----+    !  +----------------+ !
> !         !!            !  ! MDI CHILD      ! !
> !         !!            !  !                ! !
> !         !!            !  !                ! !
> !         !!            +--!                ! !
> !         !!               !                ! !
> !         !!               +----------------+ !
> !         !!                                  !
> +---------++----------------------------------!
>           ^^ Split bar

> I guess that it is not that easy because a CSplitterWnd can only contain
> views and not windows so the CSplitterWnd cannot be directly used as
> child of the CMDIFrameWnd.

> Does anyone know how Microsoft did it or how to implement it in general?

> Regards,
> --
> Dipl.-Phys. Gerhard Huebner        __
> Institute of Astronautics          \ \____   "Not a plucky hero
> --------------------------------===>--____>   until one reaches
> Technical University of Munich     /_/        the Great Wall"
> Tel.: +49-89-289-16015, Fax: 16004
> http://www.lrt.mw.tu-muenchen.de/personen/ghuebner/ghuebner.html

On Wed, 13 Aug 1997 19:32:27 +0200, Gerhard Huebner