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Is there a way to safelty toggle on and off the TabMdiWnd at run time?

I simply Destroy and ReCreate the window and it seems to work find, but I wasn’t sure if there might be ramifications to doing this.

Dear Daniel,

If you want to toggle the visibility of the MDI tab window at run time, you should override the OnTabWndSyncVisiblilty() method. Please use CExtTabMdiWnd-derived class like this:

class CMyExtTabMdiWnd : public CExtTabMdiWnd
{
public:
	 void SetVisibility(bool bVisible=true){
	  m_bVisible = bVisible;
 	}
protected:    
	 bool m_bVisible:true;
	 virtual void OnTabWndSyncVisiblilty()
	 {
	     ShowWindow( m_bVisible ? SW_SHOW : SW_HIDE );
	 }
}; // class CMyExtTabMdiWnd

After invoking SetVisibility() please do not forget to invoke RecalcLayout() of your frame window.