Where to get the initial client area rectenle of an CFormView !?

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Where to get the initial client area rectangle of an CFormView?
Because calling GetClientRect from OnIntialUpdate will give me a 0 (ZERO) size rectangle

Help me please

Thank you for your understanding.

Posted 10-Oct-13 8:14am

Mr. Tomay

Updated 10-Oct-13 8:51am

André Kraak

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2013-10-10T21:46:00

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You cannot get the rectangle until the window is visible. OnIntialUpdate is too early, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xc7fw3a0(v=vs.90).aspx[^].

Posted 10-Oct-13 21:46pm

Richard MacCutchan

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Mr. Tomay 11-Oct-13 11:58am

I thought that OnInitialUpdate is equivalent to the OnInitDialog but it is intended for form views

Also what about the resource template rectangle !? because this is what i need before the view is re-sized & the template rectangle is changed

Richard MacCutchan 11-Oct-13 12:34pm

As the document says, the GetClientRect function will only return the size after the window has been displayed. You also need to be aware that the dimensions can change any time the user resizes the main window, so these values should not be saved.