ACTIVEDOC: Demonstrates How to Implement an ActiveX Document Server

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This sample demonstrates how to implement an ActiveX Document Server. The program demonstrates the following:

• How to implement the interfaces IOleDocument and IOleDocumentView
  
  
• How to perform menu merging with the container
  
  
• How to implement a toolbar in your object
  
  
• How to override the IPersistStreamInit methods Load and Save to perform custom saving and loading
  
  
• How to use CDialogImpl to implement an About dialog box.
  
  
• How to subclass the Rich Text Edit Control

Running the Sample

Build the project, then start Microsoft Office Binder. On the Section menu click Add. An icon labeled ActiveDoc Class appears. Select this icon and click OK. You should see the object embedded in Office Binder. Notice that the menus have been merged and the ActiveDoc object's toolbar is shown. You can enter text and use the menu and toolbar buttons to change the color of the text that is typed.

The sample contains the following main files:

• ActiveCtl.h
  
  
• ActiveCtl.cpp — implements CActiveDoc, which represents the overall ActiveDoc object.
  
  
• OleDocument.h — contains the implementation of the IOleDocument and IOleDocumentView interfaces.
  
  
• Toolbar.h — contains CToolbar, which helps with the implementation of the toolbar.

This sample uses the following keywords:

ActiveXDocActivate; ALT_MSG_MAP; ATLASSERT; ATLTRACE; BEGIN_COM_MAP; BEGIN_MSG_MAP; BEGIN_OBJECT_MAP; BEGIN_PROPERTY_MAP; BEGIN_TOOLBAR_MAP; CAboutDlg::DoModal; CanInPlaceActivate; CComCoClass; CComControl; CComModule::GetClassObject; CComModule::GetLockCount; CComModule::Init; CComModule::RegisterServer; CComModule::Term; CComModule::UnregisterServer; CComObjectRoot; CComObjectRootEx::InternalQueryInterface; CComPtr; CHARFORMAT; CMenu; COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY; COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY_IMPL; COMMAND_ID_HANDLER; COMMAND_RANGE_HANDLER; CreateMenu; CreateRTFWindow; CreateToolbar; CreateWindowEx; CToolbar; CWindow::DestroyWindow; CWindow::ModifyStyle; CWindow::SetFocus; CWindow::SetParent; CWindow::SetWindowPos; DECLARE_REGISTRY_RESOURCEID; DestroyMenu; DestroyToolbar; DisableThreadLibraryCalls; DllMain; DoesVerbUIActivate; EDITSTREAM::dwCookie; EDITSTREAM::dwError; EDITSTREAM::pfnCallback; Ellipse; END_COM_MAP; END_MSG_MAP; END_OBJECT_MAP; END_PROPERTY_MAP; END_TOOLBAR_MAP; EndDialog; ExtTextOut; FreeLibrary; GetMenuItemCount; GetMenuItemID; GetMenuState; GetMenuString; GetResourceInstance; GetStockObject; GetSubMenu; GetTextMetrics; GetWindow; GetWindowContext; GetWindowRect; HDC; hdcDraw;; IDataObjectImpl; IDispatchImpl; InitCommonControls; InlineIsEqualGUID; InPlaceDeactivate; InPlaceMenuCreate; InPlaceMenuDestroy; InsertMenu; InterfaceSupportsErrorInfo; InternalQueryInterface; IOleControlImpl; IOleDocument::GetDocMiscStatus; IOleDocumentImpl; IOleDocumentView::ApplyViewState; IOleDocumentView::SetInPlaceSite; IOleDocumentViewImpl; IOleInPlaceActiveObjectImpl; IOleInPlaceFrame*   pFrame;; IOleInPlaceFrame::InsertMenus; IOleInPlaceFrame::Release; IOleInPlaceFrame::SetMenu; IOleInPlaceObjectWindowlessImpl; IOLEInPlaceSite::GetWindowContext; IOleObjectImpl; IPersistStorageImpl; IPersistStreamInitImpl; IProvideClassInfo2Impl; IQuickActivateImpl; ISupportErrorImpl; IViewObjectExImpl; LoadLibrary; LoadMenu; LoadString; MAKEINTRESOURCE; MergeMenus; MESSAGE_HANDLER; NOTIFY_CODE_HANDLER; OBJECT_ENTRY; OleCreateMenuDescriptor; OLEINPLACEFRAMEINFO; OnInPlaceActivate; OnUIActivate; prcBounds; RECT rcPos, rcClip;; RemoveMenu; SelectObject; SendMessage; SetActiveObject; SetBkMode; SetBorderSpace; SetControlFocus; SetFocus; SetInPlaceSite; SetMenu; SetObjectRects; SetTextColor; ShowObject; ShowWindow; UIActivate; UIDeactivate; UnmergeMenus; ZeroMemory