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CPropertySheets and parent dialogs

Hi All,

I have a Parent CDialog.

This CDialog has a CPropertyPage

The CPropertyPage has two CPropertySheets

Now be it due to necessity or bad design on my part, i need to call a method (update some controls) on the parent CDialog from within my CPropertySheet.

The CPropertySheets are static CDialogs which are now inherited from CPropertySheet.

I have thought of passing the 'this' parameter in the property sheet constructor, but I get a circular error with the include files.

What would be the easiest solution for calling a member function of my parent CDialog from my CPropertySheet

Txs

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Depends a bit on how the classes are defined. If in one class only pointer needs to be known a simple forward declaration is sufficient:
class CMyDialog;
class CMyPropertySheet {
};

Is there a guard around the header file?
#ifndef filename_h
#define filename_h

header file content.

#endif

This prevents the file from beeing included twice. I think the guard should always be present.

Do you really need a method of the parent to be called or would it be sufficient to post the parent a message?

Pete2003

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There is a guard already ... but because I'm using pointers to the classes inside the child classes the parent class is then undefined.

My question was however more specific. How can I make calls on the PropertyPage or even the parent dialog from the property sheet

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Pete2003

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Ok that wan't really help me since both these classes inherit from diffrent places so it's a bit more complicated, so I'll have to redesign ... but here are the points anyway :)