Document/View Tasks

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By default, AppWizard creates an application skeleton with a document class and a view class. MFC separates data management into these two classes. The document stores the data and manages printing the data and coordinates updating multiple views of the data. The view displays the data and manages user interaction with it, including selection and editing.

For the rationale behind separating document from view, see Document/View Architecture: Overview. For alternatives to document/view, see Alternatives to the Document/View Architecture.

What do you want to do?

MFC Document Tasks

• Store data in a document class
  
  
• Initialize documents and views
  
  
• Initialize your own additions to document & view classes
  
  
• Clean up documents and views
  
  
• Create multiple document types

MFC View Tasks

• Display data in a view
  
  
• Draw in a view
  
  
• Interpret user input through a view
  
  
• Scroll a view
  
  
• Scale a view
  
  
• Create multiple views on a document
  
  
• Use a form view, a view with dialog-box controls
  
  
• Use a record view to display database records

Advanced Document/View Tasks

• Bypass the archive mechanism in MFC serialization
  
  
• Bypass the document/view mechanism

See Also   Window Tasks