Multiple views basically have no way of talking to each other in standard doc/view architecture.

There are a few ways you can do this. One is to ask the document to send an update method to everyone, and to keep a copy of what''s supposed to be happening in the document (the document is, after all, supposed to be responsible for storage of all actual data). A second is to always tell the document when the state changes, so that the document always knows exactly what the second view knows. Another is to call a function in the document written for the express purpose of sending a message to the first view telling it the current state of the second view. I guess you could also give the "master" view knowledge of the other view, but that''s technically a violation of the architecture and I wouldn''t suggest it.

I suggest that you keep a list of the states from the second form in the document, and inform the document of any state changes, that way when you push the button you merely retrieve the data from the document. That sounds like the simplest implementation of this particular problem to me.

-fel