All my child windows have their own custom ribbon toolbar, etc. But these things get created in the frame window OnCreate function. The example however have two kinds of frames that gets created depending of the state of the window (the MDI child window frame and the dockable window frame.) I really think it will be a bad idea to duplicate the code found on the OnCreate function for both cases.

 
Currently the dockable frame parent is a (CXTPFrameWnd) and the MDI child window parent is a (CXTPFrameWndBase<CMDIChildWnd>) (I updated the hirarchy of both classes to allow the ribbon bar). Is there a way to keep the same behavier but use only one kind of frame? If not, what solution would you recommend to improve my situation?

 
Thanks,
Tomas

I have been trying to figure out what should I do, I am frozen. I don’t want to destroy the controls and recreate them since that may change their states.

I think the thing to do will be having a second frame inside the other frames but I wasn’t successful at making that happen.

  ANY HELP WILL BE GREATLY APRECIATED.

Tomas

I realize that what I need to do is to convert the CMDIChildWndEx from dockable to undockable such the toolbars and such wont get destroy. I belief this is how the example should have work in the first place. Any help about how should I go about doing this?

oleg wrote: Hi, Seems you have to add Frame to View and resize it in OnSize handler.

Thanks so much for answering as this is driving me crazy.
You mean to add a child frame to the view of the Helloworld for instance?
How I would go about doing that? Because I want to still have my doc/Frame/View still work as normal.

Sorry I am a bit confused...
Tomas

oleg wrote: Hi, Seems you have to add Frame to View and resize it in OnSize handler.

I did what you subjected. Now the tool bars don’t get destroyed but I have two problems.

a) When I drag a toolbar they don’t draw properly.
b) The View doesn’t seem to respect/know that there are toolbars so it thinks its client area starts at the very top of the frame.

I think both problems are related. Here is where I create the new frame/view. Can you see what I am doing wrong?

void CMagicalView::OnInitialUpdate( void )
{
    CDocument* pDocument = GetDocument();

    if (!pDocument)
        return;

    CString strTitle = pDocument->GetTitle();

    m_pFrameNew = new CRealFrame2000;
    CCreateContext context;
    context.m_pCurrentDoc = pDocument;

    m_pFrameNew->Create(NULL, NULL, WS_CHILD, CRect(0, 0, 0, 0), this, NULL, 0, &context);
    m_pFrameNew->ModifyStyleEx(WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE, 0);

    //
    // Create the view
    //
    CView* pView = new CHelloView;
    pView->Create(NULL,NULL, WS_CHILD, CRect(0,0,0,0), m_pFrameNew, 0, &context );
    pView->ModifyStyleEx(WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE, 0);

    //
    // Set the active view
    //
    m_pFrameNew->SetActiveView(pView,FALSE);
}