Re: returning from worker thread
Steve Russell wrote:
I have a set of circumstances in which I do not want to use
WaitForSingleObject to wait for my worker (audio) thread to return, whereas
at other times I will use WFSO. Is it possible to use PostMessage inside my
thread function to get my GUI moving before the worker thread returns? I
have not succeeded in any attempts so far; eventually some of my view
pointer's variables are shown to have no values. After quite a bit of
study, including Joe Newcomer's website, I have not yet figured out how to
"continue" with some calls in my view once the worker thread terminates.
Yes, it should be quite straightforward to let the GUI thread remain
alive while a worker thread is shutting down. Just make sure you do not
destroy any windows (or other data) that the worker thread accesses
until after you receive a final message posted by the worker thread.
I recall that Joe's web site lays this all out in detail. In
CMainFrame::OnClose tell your thread to shut down but do not call
CFrameWnd::OnClose. That postpones the window destruction sequence.
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