Re: Closing modeless dialogs
Torsten Hensel wrote:
Thanks everyone for the numerous answers. Now I see that my "workaround"
is a bad idea, a hack indeed.
I changed my application and I'm now using a worker thread. Instead of
using a modeless dialog I'm using a modal dialog (but I disabled closing
the dialog manually). In OnInitDialog I create a new thread that
performs the actual operation.
I added a function CloseDialog to my dialog to close the dialog.
CloseDialog calls CDialog::EndDialog - is this a good idea?
During the operation I need to update the text displayed in the dialog.
My naive approach is that the worker thread can access the dialog object
and calls a function called SetText that will call SetWindowText and
UpdateWindow - I suppose that this is no good idea, I should use
messages instead, is that right? If yes - why? I will only access the
dialog from the worker thread and never from anywhere else.
In a different application (where I didn't code the threading issues) we
had several problems with messages: the dialog was dismissed, but some
messages weren't processed yet, or messages were processed, but the
pointer to the message content (a char*) was not valid anymore since the
CString the char* pointed to was deleted.
Torsten:
Always use PostMessage() (or SendMessage() if you are careful) to transmit
information back to the main thread. This changes the thread context back to
that of the main thread.
--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP
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