Hi Robin,
CMDIChildWnd is a "friend class" of CView, thus it is permitted access to
CView's protected member functions. CView does not grant your CMDIChildWnd
derived class friend status so your derived class cannot access CView's
protected members. To get around this without modifying the MFC source, jufst
declare a "public" OnActivate() function in your view class that calls the
base class's OnActivate() function, and then use a pointer to your CView
derived class instead of a generic CView pointer to invoke OnActivate(). For
example: instead of usfing
CView* pActiveView = GetActiveView();
try
CMyView* pActiveView = (CMyView*)GetActiveView();
Sincerely,
Ed Dore
Microsoft Developer Support
Thanks for the C++ lesson (no, really!), I hadn't come across the technique of
declaring a public function in a derived class simply to 'expose' a protected
member of a base class.
Appreciate the help.
Robin