Re: Modal dialog as thread
"Rami" <rami@giron.com> wrote in message
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Thanks,
I'll certainly follow your advises in the next version, but for the time
being I want to use the thread dialog.
My question-
Can I use the dialog C++ object pointer from the main thread instead of
using the dialog window handle?
In this case setting controls values would be much easier. Of course, I'll
have to pass the pointer to the main thread instead of passing the
handle...
Regards
Rami
You can use the dialog pointer for some trivial things, which probably
include accessing its m_hWnd handle or calling its PostMessage member
function. But if you attempt to use it to directly update controls you will
encounter an MFC assertion and/or deadlocks. You can only access controls
(safely) from the thread that created them. MFC actively attempts to
prevent you from doing this because it is not thread safe, so many calls
will assert. And, the MFC control update functions are merely wrappers
around SendMessage, which is a blocking function that waits for the target
thread to process the message. This leads to deadlocks.
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