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Using a Doc/View exported from a dynamically loaded DLL (SDI)

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An article on on how to load DLLs which export views into a SDI Application
// SdiDllFramesDoc.cpp : implementation of the CSdiDllFramesDoc class
//

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "SdiDllFrames.h"

#include "SdiDllFramesDoc.h"

#ifdef _DEBUG
#define new DEBUG_NEW
#undef THIS_FILE
static char THIS_FILE[] = __FILE__;
#endif

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// CSdiDllFramesDoc

IMPLEMENT_DYNCREATE(CSdiDllFramesDoc, CDocument)

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CSdiDllFramesDoc, CDocument)
	//{{AFX_MSG_MAP(CSdiDllFramesDoc)
		// NOTE - the ClassWizard will add and remove mapping macros here.
		//    DO NOT EDIT what you see in these blocks of generated code!
	//}}AFX_MSG_MAP
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// CSdiDllFramesDoc construction/destruction

CSdiDllFramesDoc::CSdiDllFramesDoc()
{
	// TODO: add one-time construction code here

}

CSdiDllFramesDoc::~CSdiDllFramesDoc()
{
}

BOOL CSdiDllFramesDoc::OnNewDocument()
{
	if (!CDocument::OnNewDocument())
		return FALSE;

	// TODO: add reinitialization code here
	// (SDI documents will reuse this document)

	return TRUE;
}



BOOL CSdiDllFramesDoc::SwitchToView(CRuntimeClass* pNewViewClass)
{
   CFrameWnd* pMainWnd = (CFrameWnd*)AfxGetMainWnd();
   CView* pOldActiveView = pMainWnd->GetActiveView();

   // If we're already displaying this kind of view, no need to go further.
   if (pOldActiveView->IsKindOf(pNewViewClass))
      return TRUE;
	
   // Set the child window ID of the active view to AFX_IDW_PANE_FIRST.
   // This is necessary so that CFrameWnd::RecalcLayout will allocate
   // this "first pane" to that portion of the frame window's client
   // area not allocated to control bars.  Set the child ID of
   // the previously active view to some other ID.
   ::SetWindowLong(pOldActiveView->m_hWnd, GWL_ID, 0);

   // create the new view
   CCreateContext context;
   context.m_pNewViewClass = pNewViewClass;
   context.m_pCurrentDoc = this;
   CView* pNewView = STATIC_DOWNCAST(CView, pMainWnd->CreateView(&context));
   if (pNewView != NULL)
   {
      // the new view is there, but invisible and not active...
      pNewView->ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);
      pNewView->OnInitialUpdate();
      pMainWnd->SetActiveView(pNewView);
      pMainWnd->RecalcLayout();

      // destroy the old view...
      pOldActiveView->DestroyWindow();
      return TRUE;
   }

   return FALSE;
}

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// CSdiDllFramesDoc serialization

void CSdiDllFramesDoc::Serialize(CArchive& ar)
{
	if (ar.IsStoring())
	{
		// TODO: add storing code here
	}
	else
	{
		// TODO: add loading code here
	}
}

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// CSdiDllFramesDoc diagnostics

#ifdef _DEBUG
void CSdiDllFramesDoc::AssertValid() const
{
	CDocument::AssertValid();
}

void CSdiDllFramesDoc::Dump(CDumpContext& dc) const
{
	CDocument::Dump(dc);
}
#endif //_DEBUG

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// CSdiDllFramesDoc commands

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Dave has been programming for the past 20+ years first on a variety of platforms and operating systems using various languages. As a hobbyist Dave cut his teeth on the Commodore Pet and the 64 coding in basic and then moving to 6502 ASM. Dave moved to the Amiga using 68000 ASM and then C. His knowledge of the C language offered the stepping stone for him to make his hobby his profession taking a position coding C on an AIX Unix platform. Since then he has worked on many flavors of Unix, QNX, Windows (3.11 – present), and has been coding games for his Pocket PC in his spare time.

Dave lives in Indiana with his two teenage daughters and two cats.

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