Re: Stay resident dll
"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8438CB1A-C21F-4A9E-9950-D3E4822D9D8D@microsoft.com...
It is a good general rule to keep all UI on the main thread. But it is
safe to create and access additional windows on a separate thread. This
is especially true in this case where the MATLAB window is disabled while
yours is active, so there is no chance the user can simultanously mix the
two. The rule is the window must be accessed only from the thread it is
created in. In the new thread, make sure you init OpenGL and OLE if
necessary.
Oops, I guess your window and MATLAB will be active simultaneously, which is
the whole point of this! ;) So you will have both MATLAB's and your
thread's message pumps dispatching messages simultaneously. This should be
OK. In your exported function, if it finds the thread and window already
created, I would post messages to your window to pass the new graphing
parameters, rather than access it the window directly. Also, you may need
to add code in DllMain() so when the process detaches, you close the window
and exit the thread, since MATLAB won't know to clean up these. If you do
nothing, Windows will of course destroy your window and unload your DLL
anyway, but I don't know how cleanly.
-- David
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