MS Word Menu in my MDI app

[smoothcoder]

Hi everybody

I have a MDI app with a CHTMLView view derived class. I also have a page with a link to a .doc (MS Word) file. When I click on it my CHTMLView derived view displays the .doc just fine. The problem is that I want the MS Word menu to be merged somehow with my app's menu. Is that possible?? How???

Thanks in advance

 

[apatterno]

This functionality involves OLE. It's really hard to go into OLE here, all I can say is just read a lot about it in the MSDN. If you are new to Windows programming or C++ you probably want to put this off for a while. Best of luck to you in this regard.

Will

 

[smoothcoder]

Yeah, I know it involves OLE... but HOW exactly can it be done?? Any ideea?

 

[PerFnurt]

Make your application an Active Document server (step 3 in AppWizard MFC MDI appl.)

It will then be able to launch word "within itself", just like any other Active document server, like for example Visual Studio(ie try opening a .doc file with Visual Studio)

 

[PerFnurt]

Sorry, my bad. Of course I mean Active document container. (still step 3 in AppWizard though)

 

[smoothcoder]

Yes, I've tried it... I load a web page with a link to a .doc file. I click on the link, the .doc appears inside my MDI child frame, the Word rulers are there, but my app's menu is the same... I want MS WORD's menu to be merged with my app's

 

[PerFnurt]

Do you pDocTemplate->SetContainerInfo(...) in the app's InitInstance with an approperiate resource id?

See CDocTemplate::SetContainerInfo
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