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Activate frame while it's hidden.

I use one document sharing with multiple views. I want to keep the document open when I close all the views, so I have one hidden frame to do the job; because it's hidden, it's not active so then when I close all the other views, all the toolbar buttons cannot function. How can I activate the hidden frame while it's hidden? or if I can't, is there any way I can keep the document open while I close all the views? Thank you very much for your suggestion.
Tam Ngo,

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tamngo

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Hi danny_pav,

The first part is not clear to me. I also get the pointer to the viewless doc. When the last view is destroyed, what do I have to do with the flag (FALSE) in the doc? it hasn't called OnCloseDocument() until I close the application.
Please give me more information.
The reason why I should keep the doc open when I close all the views is that I need other operation without the views existence.

danny_pav

this is MDI correct? then you can have multiple views to one document.

from MFC code
void CDocument::OnChangedViewList()
{
      // if no more views on the document, delete ourself
      // not called if directly closing the document or terminating the app
      if (m_viewList.IsEmpty() && m_bAutoDelete)
      {
            OnCloseDocument();
            return;
      }

      // update the frame counts as needed
      UpdateFrameCounts();
}

Obviously, you want to set m_bAutoDelete to FALSE. This will prevent the doc from being closed when the last view is closed.

Also, on 2: Are these operations document operations or could they just be moved to the application class?

tamngo

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danny_pav

1. Is this MDI?
2. What operations are being done to a viewless document?

tamngo

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I think I've got it. Because I still have one viewless frame, it doesn't call OnCloseDocument() when I close all visible views.
If I want to activate buttons just move handlers to mainframe instead of keeping them at CDoc. I just wonder why are the handlers are inactive when the doc still open.
Thank you very much for your time.