A WTL DocView framework

Jozef Bozek

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Implemetation of a simple DocView framework like MFC.

Introduction

This article explains the implementation of a simple Doc View framework in a WTL (version 7.5) MDI application. The sample project included with this article is a wizard-generated MDI application enhanced with my framework classes. I enhanced code from Gabriel Kniznik with a little bit closer to the MFC DocView approach, and there exists only one kind of document template - MDI Document template. This framework was written in a week, so I apologize for mistakes and unfinished solutions :).

In this article is also participating Rodrigo Pinho Pereira de Souza, who made great enhancements to this framework (see the History section).

Implementation

In the demo project, you can see how to integrate the framework to your own project. You have to make changes to CMainFrame, CChildFrame, CYourView, and create a new class CYourDoc. Do not forget to change the IDR_CHILDFRAME string to the form for MFC -> \nDocument\nDVF\n\n\nDVFSimple.Document\nDVF Document.

Below is a simplified class diagram of the framework:

History

11 Jan 2006

Changes made by Rodrigo Pinho Pereira de Souza:

Automatic handling of ID_FILE_NEW
Automatic handling of ID_FILE_SAVE
Automatic handling of ID_FILE_SAVEAS
Implemented Serialization mechanism
Changed all declarations of std::vector to the ATL CSimpleArray
Created a CFormView class

Demo application split to VC++ 6.0 and VS.NET 2003.

8 Aug 2005 - Initial version.

Terms of Use

The sample application available with this article is free for any purpose. THIS SOFTWARE IS DISTRIBUTED AS-IS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND.

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Written By

Jozef Bozek

CEO bring-it-together s.r.o.

Slovakia

Jozef Božek is currently a software engineer at bring-it-together s.r.o. in area of large scale infomation systems and mobile applications development.
He has been developing in C++ nearly full time since 2000, in Java since 2004 and in Objective-C since 2009. He is programming using Java EE SDK, iOS SDK, COM/DCOM, MFC, ATL, STL and so on Smile | :)

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