Using Frame Windows

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The MFC framework creates document frame windows — and their views and documents — as part of its implementation of the New and Open commands on the File menu. Because the framework does most of the frame-window work for you, you play only a small role in creating, using, and destroying those windows. You can, however, explicitly create your own frame windows and child windows for special purposes.

What do you want to know more about

• Creating document frame windows

• When to Initialize CWnd Objects

• Destroying frame windows

• Managing MDI child windows

• Managing the current view

• Managing menus, control bars, and accelerators

• Dragging and dropping files in a frame window

• Responding to dynamic data exchange (DDE)

• Orchestrating other window actions

• Managing context-sensitive help

• The frame window's role in printing and print preview

See Also

Frame Windows