Getting the activeview from a dialogbox

Hello,
I am a VC++ beginner using VC++6.0 Prof on Windows 98.

I have an MDI app in which I have so far created one child window.  This is a splitter window, one part of which is a CListView (in reportview with subitems).  I have got so far as doubleclicking on an item from the listview, which produces a Propertysheet with three pages.  This propertysheet is supposed to show data relating to the item in the listview.

I have the following problems:

1)  I need to get a pointer to the view that was active before I called up the Propertypages.

2)  With this I need to get the itemtext of the selected item in the listview.

I do not know how to do either of the above items.  I have produced the following code:

void CAddrPage1::GetRecordset()
{
        //parent of the propertysheet
 CMDIChildWnd* mpaul = (CMDIChildWnd*)GetParent();
        //active view of the parent
 CListView* msteve = (CListView*)mpaul->GetActiveView();
        //underlying listcontrol
 CListCtrl &mjohn = msteve->GetListCtrl();
        //don't know how to get selected item
 CString mhelen = mjohn.GetItemText(2,0);
        //SQL statement
 CString mtext = "Select * from AddressBook where Displayname = '" +
 mhelen + "'";    
        // recordset class ClassWizard created
 m_PSet = new CAddrRset1(mtext);  
        //error handling & open recordset for use in prop pages
 m_PSet->Open();
}

This code produces a runtime error saying it can't find the CListCtrl. The code is supposed to get the listview item, and with it create the recordset needed to prime the propertypages which I am calling up.  I call it in OnCreate() of page one of the new propertypages.

I would be very grateful for code showing how to do the above. Especially I am interested in how to extract the itemtext of the selected listview item.

Thanks,
Paul Trimming