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Creating draggable windows - SDI and dialogs

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12 Jul 2002Ms-PL7 min read 183.4K   3.2K   56  
Shows how you can create windows that can be dragged around, not just through the title bar, but anywhere within the window body
// DragSDIView.h : interface of the CDragSDIView class
//


#pragma once


class CDragSDIView : public CView
{
protected: // create from serialization only
	CDragSDIView();
	DECLARE_DYNCREATE(CDragSDIView)

// Attributes
public:
	CDragSDIDoc* GetDocument() const;

// Operations
public:

// Overrides
	public:
	virtual void OnDraw(CDC* pDC);  // overridden to draw this view
virtual BOOL PreCreateWindow(CREATESTRUCT& cs);
protected:
	virtual BOOL OnPreparePrinting(CPrintInfo* pInfo);
	virtual void OnBeginPrinting(CDC* pDC, CPrintInfo* pInfo);
	virtual void OnEndPrinting(CDC* pDC, CPrintInfo* pInfo);

// Implementation
public:
	virtual ~CDragSDIView();
#ifdef _DEBUG
	virtual void AssertValid() const;
	virtual void Dump(CDumpContext& dc) const;
#endif

protected:

// Generated message map functions
protected:
	DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()
public:	
	afx_msg void OnLButtonUp(UINT nFlags, CPoint point);
	afx_msg void OnLButtonDown(UINT nFlags, CPoint point);		
	bool m_mousedown;
	CPoint m_lastpoint;
	afx_msg void OnMouseMove(UINT nFlags, CPoint point);
};

#ifndef _DEBUG  // debug version in DragSDIView.cpp
inline CDragSDIDoc* CDragSDIView::GetDocument() const
   { return reinterpret_cast<CDragSDIDoc*>(m_pDocument); }
#endif

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Nish Nishant is a technology enthusiast from Columbus, Ohio. He has over 20 years of software industry experience in various roles including Chief Technology Officer, Senior Solution Architect, Lead Software Architect, Principal Software Engineer, and Engineering/Architecture Team Leader. Nish is a 14-time recipient of the Microsoft Visual C++ MVP Award.

Nish authored C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications in 2005, and co-authored Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework for Addison Wesley in 2003. In addition, he has over 140 published technology articles on CodeProject.com and another 250+ blog articles on his WordPress blog. Nish is experienced in technology leadership, solution architecture, software architecture, cloud development (AWS and Azure), REST services, software engineering best practices, CI/CD, mentoring, and directing all stages of software development.

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