Use MDI framework in a dialog based application

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Hello Everybody,
The following article shows how to integrate a SDI document/frame/view architecture to a dialog based application:

Inserting a Doc/Frame/View in a dialog using a custom control[^]

Unfortunately this does not work the same way for MDI. Does anybody ever tried to make this happen for MDI?

I try to create a dialog based application with different MDI / SDI frameworks which start on different buttons in the main Dialog.
Regards,
Achim

Posted 19-Mar-11 14:40pm

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Updated 19-Mar-11 14:41pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-03-20T15:57:00

The answer is simple: don't use MDI!

There are now situations where this extremely inconvenient UI style helps. Is it totally discouraged by practically anyone and considered to be a Microsoft mistake in first place. By using MDI you can only scare off your customers. Prefer design based on just one main window. As a next level of hierarchy you can use tabbing interface and more.

—SA

achimschoen · Answer 2 · 2011-03-20T22:20:00

Solution 2

The answer may be simple, but it does not really help me. I need to supply a framework with different views and the SDI only allows to have one framework inside the architecture.

Posted 20-Mar-11 22:20pm