Multiple CRectTracker Class

 

Environment: VC6 SP2, NT4 SP3, Win95/98

The class I present performs the classic dragging and resizing of multiple objects, like vectoriel editors or CAD programs.
It does the same operations that the CRectTracker, with an array of rectangles instead of a single rectangle.
Those rectangles could be implemented with a CArray<CRect*, CRect*>, but the code in the project's view would be complex and not portable. So my solution is the CMRTObject (for CMultiRectTrackerObject), a base class for the edited objects, with just a rectangle information and two functions Get/Set. In a normal project, those objects are often based on CObject, but with multiple inheritance, this add-in is easy to be implemented. Another good news is that the CMultiRectTracker class gets the possibility to directly change the position/size of selected objects, so the CView code for the manipulation is light, as listed below.

//
// This is a demo object. As long as it contains 
// CMRTObject in its base classes, the multitrack works.
// Implement your own Draw fct, with your datas, etc..
// If derived from CObject, the serialize capacities can 
// be added.
//
class CDemoObject : public CMRTObject, public CObject
{
public:
 CDemoObject (COLORREF rgb)
 : CMRTObject(), m_color(rgb) {;}
 CDemoObject (LPCRECT lpSrcRect, COLORREF rgb)
 : CMRTObject(lpSrcRect), m_color(rgb) {;}

 ~CDemoObject () {;}

public:
 void Draw (CDC* pDC) {
 pDC->FillSolidRect (GetRect(), m_color);
}

protected:
 COLORREF m_color;
};

Listed below is a possible implementation for your CxxView::OnLButtonDown(). It performs multiple selection with a local CRectTracker, and updates the CMultiRectTracker object contained by the view. If there is no rubber band, it selects the object clicked, and if the HitTest is different than -1 (CRectTracker::hitNothing), it starts the CMultiRectTracker::Track() function, wich contains the similar internal loop than CRectTracker. All objects moved or sized are directly updated in the Track() fct, the only work the CxxView needs to do is a call to Invalidate(). The CTRL key is scanned, and selected objects are removed if the user don't hit CTRL.

void CDemoView::OnLButtonDown(UINT nFlags, CPoint point)
{
 CDemoDoc* pDoc = GetDocument();

 // Ask the multitrack if an object is already 
 // selected or a handle. If not, start the 
 // local tracker. 
 if (multiTrack.HitTest(point) < 0) {

  // Reset the multitrack only if there 
  // is no CTRL key. 
  if (!(nFlags & MK_CONTROL))
   multiTrack.RemoveAll();

  CRect rcObject;
  CDemoObject* pObject;

  // local tracker... 
  CRectTracker tracker;
  if (tracker.TrackRubberBand(this, point, TRUE)) {

   // see if rubber band intersects with the objects 
   CRect rectT;
   tracker.m_rect.NormalizeRect();
   POSITION pos = pDoc->m_objects.GetHeadPosition ();
   while (pos != NULL) {
    pObject = (CDemoObject*)(pDoc->m_objects.GetNext(pos));
    rcObject = pObject->GetRect();
    rectT.IntersectRect(tracker.m_rect, rcObject);
    if (rectT == rcObject) {
     multiTrack.Add(pObject); // add it to the multitrack, 
     // and continue the loop 
    }
   }
  } else {
   // No rubber band, see if the point selects an object. 
   POSITION pos = pDoc->m_objects.GetHeadPosition ();
   while (pos != NULL) {
    pObject = (CDemoObject*)(pDoc->m_objects.GetNext(pos));
    rcObject = pObject->GetRect();
    if (rcObject.PtInRect(point)) {
		 // add just one object to the multitrack 
     multiTrack.Add(pObject);
     break;
    }
   }
  }
 } else {
  // Click on the multitrack, forward actions to it. 
  if (multiTrack.Track(this, point, FALSE))
  pDoc->SetModifiedFlag();
 }
 // Update drawing. 
 Invalidate();
 CView::OnLButtonDown(nFlags, point);
}

In order to be classic, the cursor needs to be updated, function of its position on the objects, so a call to SetCursor() is needed before the CView-base class OnSetCursor() call, like the CRectTracker usage.

BOOL CDemoView::OnSetCursor(CWnd* pWnd, UINT nHitTest,
 UINT message)
{
 // forward to multitracker 
 if (pWnd == this && multiTrack.SetCursor(this, nHitTest))
 return TRUE;
 return CView::OnSetCursor(pWnd, nHitTest, message);
}