Re: Sleeping...

From:
"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:06:57 -0800
Message-ID:
<#vButwitKHA.732@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>
Use SetTimer function.

"dushkin" <taltene@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:39e362dc-58aa-4683-864f-9da0a1ac6b89@j27g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...

Hi All

I have the following problem:

1. I built a DLL which have a for loop. The loop needs to "sleep" X
mseconds between each ietration. Also, the DLL has a dialog and
obviously its exported functions are being used by the client and
their input must be processed.
So I used Win32 Sleep(x) to put the loop to sleep but it of course
caused the whole main process to sleep, hence to the dialog to be
"stucked" and to the rest of the messages to be blocked until the
Sleep completed.

2. So I found XSleep function on the web which in essence implements
the sleep on another thread.

3. Now nothing seems to be stucked, but when I drag the dialog,
nothing seems to be updated in it ( I have a list control in which the
loop adds an item in each iteration - When I stop the dragging, I see
the next item being added.)

Thanks,

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