Robin,
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In an MDI app. I want to open a new document but load it by means
other than reading a document: eg. pasting from the clipboard,
scanning an image etc.
I've got it working by setting a public flag in my CWinApp object
and then calling the OnNewDocument() member of my derived
CDocument. This in turn checks the flag and performs the necessary
actions.
This use of a flag doesn't 'feel right' somehow (to someone new to
OOP) and I wonder if there's a better way to do this.
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You can also save your CMultiDocTemplate pointers which you pass to
AddDocTemplate in your InitInstance. Through these pointers you
can call OpenDocumentFile() passing it NULL to create a new
document (with no file associated yet) or a file name to load.
OpenDocumentFile is one of the useful but undocumented functions
which we're working to get into the next version of the
documentation.
Hope this helps.
Tarn Faulkner
Microsoft Developer Support