Re: CEvent & WaitForSingleObject (auto-reset)

From:
Faisal <faisalm83@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:40:53 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<30d4d069-afa8-424d-a143-42e0bb638b76@d36g2000prb.googlegroups.com>
On Jul 2, 7:24 pm, "Alexander Grigoriev" <al...@earthlink.net> wrote:

You can't use your CEvent pointer as an argument of WaitForSingleObject.
It's not an event handle.

And first of all, DON'T USE CEvent. Use ATL::CEvent, which is more sane.
MFC::CEvent is braindead.


Does the ATL::CEvent and other synchronization classes have any
advantages compared to MFC's .
Our software is written completely based on MFC synchronization
classes. Is there any compelling reason to rewrite it using ATL sync
classes?

"Jimbo_Jimbob_Jiminator" <JimboJimbobJimina...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in messagenews:17FE98C0-D85E-4BF4-B154-7C303795B479@microsoft.com..=

..

Haven't been here in a while. Haven't been doing any Windows programmin=

g

for
some time.

I have an issue with CEvent & WaitForSingleObject. The likely issue is
that
I have no idea what I'm doing but, if we put that aside and pretend tha=

t I

have a clue, it goes like this:

The default implementation for CEvent is auto-reset. That is how I want=

 to

use it. I have only a main tread and a second thread so I do not have
several
threads waiting.

I have looked in books and all over the web and all of the examples see=

m

to
show how to start a thread or stop a thread with an event. In this case=

,

auto-reset is not that useful if you only have one worker thread anyway=

..

I am trying to control when a loop runs with the event. The issue is th=

at

once the user clicks the button to allow the progress bar to be updated
once,
it just keeps updating through completion. I figure that the state of t=

he

CEvent should auto-reset and it should not run another iteration until =

the

user intiates it.

Regards,
Jim

Here are some code snips that show it:

//This is primarily from an example I found on the web. I added the
//WaitForSingleObject as a test case.
UINT TestThread(LPVOID lParam)
{
AfxMessageBox("Bite Me");

PTHREADINFOSTRUCT pTis = (PTHREADINFOSTRUCT)lParam;
pTis->pEvent->Lock();
for(int i=0;i<100;i++)
{
::WaitForSingleObject(pTis->pEvent, INFINITE) == WAIT_OBJECT_0;
//This sends a message to the main thread to update the status bar
PostMessage(pTis->hWnd,UWM_USER_THRD_UPPRG,i,100);
Sleep(100);
}
PostMessage(pTis->hWnd,UWM_USER_THRD_FIN,0,0);
delete pTis;
return 0;
}

void CPPage1::OnBnClickedButton1()
{
//Testing Wait Single Object. Sends message to main dlg that user click=

ed

//the button
LRESULT Rslt = ::SendMessage(m_pMainWnd->m_hWnd , UWM_TEST_WSO, 0, 0)=

;

}

LRESULT CMainDlg::OnWSO(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
//User clicked the button set event to allow progress bar another tick.
pTis->pEvent->SetEvent();
return 0;
}

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