How do I activate a view which is already opened in MFC-MDI App?

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Hello Friends,

I have created a MFC-MDI app, in which I want to switch view/Open View on a menu click. I am able to open new view, but if view is already opened I want to switch the view and make it active view. But I am not able to activate that view even it is already opened.
I used SetActiveView()and also tried to send message to view, and handle it in view, but not getting expected output. Can anyone help me in this?

Thanks in advance.

Posted 4-Feb-11 6:06am

aamswe

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Solution 1

SetActiveView should work.
Are you using the correct parent frame object to call the method?

You can also try other methods like BringWindowToTop and SetFocus.

Posted 4-Feb-11 7:59am

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Rajesh Katalkar · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-04T23:27:00

Solution 2

you need to get hold of the view pointer you want to activate
then get its parent frame and call ActivateFrame;

lets say u have the pointer of the view you want to active

CView *pview;
//
// you get pview the view you want to activate
//
//next you just do the following
pview->GetParentFrame()->ActivateFrame(SW_RESTORE);

thats it.

regards
rajesh

Posted 4-Feb-11 23:27pm

Rajesh Katalkar

Updated 6-Feb-11 1:04am

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aamswe 7-Feb-11 1:09am

Thanks Rajesh!
it works!
I was doing SetActiveWindow() on view pointer, which was not working