Painter for CMyDocView does not inherit from CView - How to?

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Yellow.

I recently grabbed a free CDataGrid class, nice and lightweight and I want
to use this in my SDI view. I understand that my views (if I have more than
one) need to inherit from CView, or from a control which has CView as a base
class.

CDataGrid does not inherit from any MFC controls - it is entirely custom
written.

So I used the AppWizard CMyView and made a member pointer to my CDataGrid
class which instantiates along with the CMyView - no probs.

The WM_PAINT messages are being processed by the CDataGrid object (which in
its Create() call CreateWindowEx(...)), but I see nothing happening in the
client window!

Do I need to make the client view transparent? How?

I know the CDataGrid works, because once I Create()d it in the h_Wnd of the
menu and toolbars and I could see portions of it being drawn.

Why won't it appear in my SDI client window?
I am doing this:

void CTestGridView::OnInitialUpdate()
{
m_pDG = new CDataGrid();
RECT rect = {50,50,700,300}; // Create DataGrid child window
m_pDG->Create(rect, AfxGetMainWnd()->m_hWnd, 5);

//setup grid etc

CView::OnInitialUpdate();
}

Many thanks
Luke
(may the source be with you)


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