Need help with a simple task panel task

I have a Task Panel derived from CView in my .h file as such:



class CSimToolboxTaskView : public CView

{

protected:

    //{{AFX_MSG(CSimToolboxTaskView)

    //}}AFX_MSG

    afx_msg LRESULT OnTaskPanelNotify(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam);

    DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()

};

In the .cpp file, you direct the XTPWM_TASKPANEL_NOTIFY message to execute your Task Panel Notify function to take different actions depending on the ID of the clicked item.



BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CSimToolboxTaskView, CView)

    //{{AFX_MSG_MAP(CSimToolboxTaskView)

    //}}AFX_MSG_MAP

    ON_MESSAGE(XTPWM_TASKPANEL_NOTIFY, OnTaskPanelNotify)

END_MESSAGE_MAP()



LRESULT CSimToolboxTaskView::OnTaskPanelNotify(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)

{

    switch (wParam)

    {

        case XTP_TPN_CLICK:

            {

           
    CXTPTaskPanelGroupItem* pItem =
(CXTPTaskPanelGroupItem*)lParam;

           
    TRACE(_T("Click Event: pItem.Caption = %s, pItem.ID
= %i\n"), pItem->GetCaption(), pItem->GetID());

           
    m_pParent->NotifyToolboxItem(pItem->GetID(),
TRUE);

            }

            break;



        case XTP_TPN_RCLICK:

            {

           
    CXTPTaskPanelItem* pItem =
(CXTPTaskPanelItem*)lParam;

           
    TRACE(_T("RClick Event: pItem.Caption = %s, pItem.ID
= %i\n"), pItem->GetCaption(), pItem->GetID());

           
    m_pParent->NotifyToolboxItem(pItem->GetID(),
FALSE);

            }

            break;

    }



    return 0;

}

I have mine get a pointer to the parent class in the OnCreate() function, and then call a function in the parent object telling it the item that was clicked. The item is the ID that you added to the Task Panel's group via AddGroupItem().

If you want my source, please let me know and I will email it to you. It's very easy to use once you know what classes to create and functions to call. The samples from Codejock are very good (it's what I used).