Before I begin I gota tell you I''m a somewhat new to MFC so don''t try to kill me if the problem probably has an easy answer. First I added in a CDirect3D class to my SDI app that had a base class of CView. I then added in OnDraw OnCreate OnDestroy and some other functions to the CDirect3d class. My problem is that none of those messsage maps are being called. How I tested this was by first putting in a command to make my speaker beep in the CView:OnDraw. It beep but when I put it in CDirect3d:OnDraw nothing beeped at all. What it the world am I doing wrong. I thought that the CDirect3d::OnDraw would be called or even overload the CView::OnDraw. Some help and advice on a good MFC programming book would help.

Did you add the OnDraw manually to your DirectDraw class? You shouldn''t. There is something called a message map, if you are new to MFC leave it alone.

I suggest you reconstruct the class using the class wizard.

D.V.

DeltaVee I did use the App Wizard.

quote:Original post by gavrhen
How I tested this was by first putting in a command to make my speaker beep in the CView:OnDraw. It beep but when I put it in CDirect3d:OnDraw nothing beeped at all.

I''m used to working with MFC ( 4 years experience already ), and from what I''m reading here, I think I can deduce the problems:

How can you put a speaker-beep command in CView::OnDraw? Have you been modifying the MFC source, or do you have two CView-derived classes in your project? If you have two, you''re probably never using the CDirect3d class in your document-view architecture.
By the way, there''s an easier way to find out if a function gets called, which is the TRACE macro. It "traces" (outputs) a string into the debugger-output window of visual studio. For instance, you could put TRACE( "CView::OnDraw\n" ) in the corresponding function, and you''d see that string show up in the debugger output window if the function was ever called.

The easiest thing to do would be to post a link to your code (MainFrm, document and views) so I could have a look at it, see if the message maps are correct, and the right view is attached to the document.
MFC and the Doc/View architecture aren''t particularly elegant, specially if you are new to them. It takes a while to get to know its quirks.




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