ArcGIS Engine Developer Guide

BUILDING APPLICATIONS WITH C++ AND CONTROL WIDGETS
Placing the ArcGIS Engine Controls
Now that you have a Motif form ready, you can create the ArcGIS controls as
Motif widgets and place them on the form.
1. Start by including the ArcGIS controls header file in MapViewer.h:
#include
// Controls
#include
2. In MapViewer.cpp, continue implementing your application. Set up global
variables for the control interfaces, placing them before main.
// Control Interfaces
IToolbarControlPtr g_ipToolbarControl;
IMapControl3Ptr g_ipMapControl;
ITOCControlPtr g_ipTOCControl;
IPageLayoutControlPtr g_ipPageLayoutControl;
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
3. You are now ready to create the ESRI control widgets for the
PageLayoutControl, MapControl, TOCControl, and ToolbarControl. You will
do this in the FormSetup function after the mainForm is created and before the
widgets are managed. The widget class for all of the ESRI controls is
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