Re: CPictureEx animating

From:

"Tom Serface" <tserface@msn.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:40:05 -0700

Message-ID:

<eOcZdoo1GHA.1548@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>

You may have to put the offending function in a thread instead or use
something like the following in your loop that is taking all the time:

//
// Release main thread for background processing
//
void GiveTime()
{
    // Idle until the screen redraws itself, et. al.
    MSG msg;
    while (::PeekMessage( &msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_NOREMOVE ) ) {
        if (!AfxGetThread()->PumpMessage( )) {
            ::PostQuitMessage(0);
            break;
        }
    }
    // let MFC do its idle processing
    LONG lIdle = 0;
    while (AfxGetApp()->OnIdle(lIdle++ ))
        ;
}

Tom
"cybernerdsx2" <fongjengkum@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1158076091.901274.11800@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

Hi,

I have a class that contains a CPictureEx that loads up an animated
GIF. But the problem is that when a function in that class executed
does a heavy job which will halt the animation from animating.

So I came up with a thread for starting up the CPictureEx but still I
seeing it hangs when the function is being called.

Do you know how I can fix that?

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