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Hello,

In the Skinable example, the states of the windows and controls are serialized to and from the Registry in CMainFrame::OnCreate and CMainFrame::DestroyWindow, respectively. How can I also serialize the locations, sizes, display states (minimized, maximized, normal, etc., basically information that would be in a WINDOWPLACEMENT struture) as well as the Z-order of the MDI children? I am using Prof-UIS library v 2.54 freeware.

Thanks!

You can save/restore the state of the following UI elements:

1) Any UI element that is a single per application instance and that does not require exact identification. For example, the main frame or dialog window.

2) Any UI element that has its unique identifier. For example, all the control bars have unique dialog control identifiers and that is why its sate can be saved/restored.

MDI child frame windows cannot be identified generally. In some particular cases, for example when the Document/View architecture is applied, an MDI child frames can be identified by its title or path of the document object but this will not help if one document can be open with multiple frames/views.

The following article may be helpful with this: http://www.codeproject.com/docview/smartframes.asp