The IOleDocument interface enables a document object to communicate to prospective containers its ability to create views of its data. This interface also enables a document object to enumerate its views and to provide containers with miscellaneous information about itself, such as whether it supports multiple views or complex rectangles.

When to Implement

An OLE document that is to be activated as a document object at the very least must implement this interface. If an application exposes more than one type of document object, each type must implement IOleDocument. A documentÆs view frame provider, which

When to Use

A container of document objects calls the methods of this interface to ask a document object to create views of itself, enumerate the views it supports, or provide miscellaneous information about its capabilities.

Methods in VTable Order

IUnknown Methods                          Description                                  
                                                                                       

QueryInterface                            

Returns pointers to supported interfaces.    
                                                                                       

AddRef                                    Increments reference count.                  
                                                                                       

Release                                   Decrements reference count.                  
                                                                                       

IOleDocument Methods                      Description                                  
                                                                                       

CreateView

                                Creates a new view object.                   
                                                                                       

GetDocMiscStatus                          Returns status bits about the document       
                                          object.                                       
                                                                                       

EnumViews                                 Enumerates views supported by the document   
                                          object.                                       
                                                                                       

See Also

IOleCommandTarget, IOleContinueCallback, IOleDocumentSite, IOleDocumentView, IPrint