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Hi

First of all, a big hi from me to all the
       gurus here.

      I recently started MFC programming, and I would
      like to do the following.


      I want to create multiple windows ( SDI's)
      from a single application at the same time.

      All of them should behave as normal windows
      in their own sense. It means, I should be
      able to minimize, maximize etc,,etc,,
      should be able to have child controls within
      them.

      In a nutshell, if i run the final application
      ( say multi.exe ), I should be able to create
      more than 1 window at the same time.

      Can somebody tell me, how I could accomplish
      this using MFC.

      Thanks in advance.

Cheers
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checkabdoul

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Hi Davis,
First of all thanks for the quick reply.

But oops!!!! That is not what I am looking for.
( Sorry for not mentioning it clearly. I know about those MDI's and all other stuff related to that. Even though I am relatively new to MFC programming, I had been developing windows applications for the past 4 years. I know those windows jargons.
No offense meant.)

I do not want to have child windows within MDI's ( which is relatively simple!Right!!). What I want is 2 or more different SDI's, independant of each other running in the same application.

It could also be an MDI and an SDI created at the same time from one single application. How could I accomplish this ?

Please let me know, if i am not clear about what I am talking about.

Thanks and Have a nice day
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The problem is that an SDI takes over the whole MainFrame. You can't have more than one SDI running, hence the 'S' in SDI meaning 'Single'.

MDI's ARE 2 or more different SDI independent of each other running the same application.

I guess the question is: "What features of MDI do you not like that you are trying to stay away from?"

Phillip

checkabdoul

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Hi Phillip Davis,

Thanks for the reply.

>> The problem is that an SDI takes over the whole MainFrame. You can't have more than one SDI running, hence the 'S' in SDI meaning 'Single'.

MDI's ARE 2 or more different SDI independent of each other running the same application.

I guess the question is: "What features of MDI do you not like that you are trying to stay away from?"

Yes.. You are right. The exact feature of MDI that I do not want is, I do not want this two SDI's of mine to be stuck withing the MDI umbrella. I want these 2 SDI's to have their own toolbar, statusbar, menu..etc..etc...

It is like I want to have more than 1 window from a single application. These windows created can be MDI's or SDI's or modeless dialog boxes..

Thanks again for your replies Phillip Davis.

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> The exact feature of MDI that I do not want is, I do not want this two SDI's of mine to be stuck withing the MDI umbrella.

> I want these 2 SDI's to have their own toolbar, statusbar, menu

AHHH, but they don't have to!! Create yourself multiple templates! For example, add yourself some CMultiDocTemplates to your application header...

CMultiDocTemplate* m_pCountryTemplate;
CMultiDocTemplate* m_pSignatureTemplate;

m_pCountryTemplate = new CMultiDocTemplate(
IDR_COUNTRYTYPE,
RUNTIME_CLASS(CCountryDoc),
RUNTIME_CLASS(CCountryChildFrame), // custom MDI child frame
RUNTIME_CLASS(CCountryView));

AddDocTemplate(m_pCountryTemplate);

m_pSignatureTemplate = new CMultiDocTemplate(
IDR_SIGNATURETYPE,
RUNTIME_CLASS(CSignatureDoc),
RUNTIME_CLASS(CSignatureChildFrame), // custom MDI child frame
RUNTIME_CLASS(CSignatureView));

AddDocTemplate(m_pSignatureTemplate);

Did you notice the IDR_COUNTRYTYPE and IDR_SIGNATURETYPE parts? That's where you get your multiple toolbars and menus. Just create a menu and a toolbar for each of the resource IDs. Now when they are created via the

pApp->m_pCategoryTemplate->OpenDocumentFile( NULL );

command, then you will get your MDI window open with it's specific toolbar and specific menu. Voila!

Phillip