MFC: Accessing Frame window from the Document

What is the correct way to access the frame from the document class?

Here is the deal: Part of the CDocument derived class changed, and as a result, I want the text in the statusbar (a member variable in the frame class) to be updated.

And actually it seems like it should be the View class that detects that the document has changed, and then the view should update the statusbar. But either way, is there a standard way of doing this? If so, what is it?

In your document class:

Code:

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POSITION pos = GetFirstViewPosition();
CMyView *p = (CMyView *)this->GetNextView(pos);
CMyFrame *frame = (CMyFrame *)p->GetParentFrame();

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Remember there can be multiple views of the same document object, that's why you have to get the first view position.

Ok...that works. And now I need a philosophy lesson. Because I actually can't access the m_wndStatusBar member, because it's protected. That didn't stop me from just going over and changing it to public, but I was wondering if the writers of MFC had some other philosophy in mind here. For instance, is the document supposed to set some member variable (m_currentStatusBarText) and then is the Frame suppposed to pick up on this fact based on some windows message (maybe WM_PAINT or something)? It seems like that sort of approach would at least allow the Frame to maintain it's StatusBar as private.

Also, I noticed that the statusbar is drawn into the client area--i.e. it isn't really part of the frame like the title bar and menu are. Given that this is the case, doesn't it make sense for the m_wndStatusBar member to be a member of the View (which is traditionally in charge of the window client area)? Or if not, then they could at least make the status bar really part of the frame...