Thread: splitting the client area into 4 hwnds

i have made my menu and toolbars, and now i have a big rectangle in the middle for 4 views for a game editor. i need to somehow split them up into 4 hwnds that i can do a d3dpresent to, but i don't know how. not being able to resize isn't a big deal, thought it would be nice. i need some kind of border also, only a few pixels. it would be REALLY nice if there was a command to just pass a RECT to and a HWND to split up, and it would just make a HWND with that rect. but, all i need to do is split the view up vertically and horizontally so i can get 4 hwnds from it. how would i do that?

because the IDirect3DDevice->Present has 4 arguments, like Present(RECT source, RECT dest, HWND deviceWindow, and something else).

if i have 4 hwnds i can simply just send it the hwnd i need to render to. but i'll read up on those other things you posted, splitter windows might be what i need.

Originally posted by novacain
can't you send in the same HWND and different Rects?

i think so, i just think it would make the code cleaner if i coudl do it with HWNDS.