Re: MFC and User Defined objects
one-trick-pony wrote:
Greetings,
Scott you said,
A CWnd object such as CDummyDlg does not have a window (so it does
not
have a valid m_hWnd) when it is constructed. It only has a window
and
valid m_hWnd after its Create (or DoModal) function is called. The
design of MFC requires this "two stage construction".
How can I make my code wait/suspend until Create or DoModal has run?
That is how can I provide mechanism in my code to suspend thread
creation or further code execution until a valid HWND is available?
How can I check if it has run?
Create or DoModal are part of your code: You can't suspend your code to
wait until your code does something!
The only way to create the thread after the HWND is to put the thread
creation code at the proper spot in the execution flow. That spot is
OnInitDialog.
Furthermore:
You created 'mywin 'as a local variable. That means it does not
exist
outside the function where it was created. See C++ "scope" rules.
Initially, I had declared 'mywin' to be of HWND datatype inside
CDummyDlg class declaration as Private data member. To my
understanding all member functions should have access to Private data
members in same class. I would get an error message about something
being static inside adapter code(sorry can't remember exact message).
Everything is part of CDummyDlg, including thread creation functions.
Since thread functions are also part of same class as 'mywin' they
should be able to access it.
Not quite. The thread function is required to be a static function (so
Window's C code can call it). But a static function cannot access the
members of a class (unless those members are also static).
--
Scott McPhillips [VC++ MVP]
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