I'm making a GUI application and it's 'front-ended' around a 5MB data structure.
My application has an MDI frame as the main dialog. Should I make the data structure a child of this frame, or should I make it parentless and just belong to the application's top-level class?
thats up to you.
Is that data global as in all windows need access to it? If yes, then embed it in the main document. Otherwise, it belongs in the subdocument.
Kuphryn
Really only child objects of the main frame need this structure.
I tried making it a member of the main frame's class, initializing the structure in the frame's constructor, but when I did the program would either crash or when I started the program I'd get no visual. It would appear for half a second in the task manager, then disappear. However, when I make it part of the main program's class and initialize it in the OnInit() function (I'm using wxWidgets instead of VC++ - works about the same), it works and I have no problems.
No clue why this happens.
