Re: Communicating between worker threads..

From:
kefkastudio@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
8 Sep 2006 08:50:24 -0700
Message-ID:
<1157730624.507474.45530@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>
I have another question. I have some edit boxes and lists that are
constantly getting updated info from my code(inside CvcatTransmit), how
can I point to those within my new CThread class?

Here's the code. thread is declared inside of vcatTransmit.h as
CThread * thread;

void CvcatTransmit::OnTransmitStart()
{

        thread = (CThread *)AfxBeginThread(RUNTIME_CLASS(CThread),
                                        THREAD_PRIORITY_NORMAL,
                                        0, //stacksize
                                        CREATE_SUSPENDED);

        thread->SetMe = true;
        thread->ResumeThread();
}

void CvcatTransmit::OnTransmitStop()
{
        thread->PostThreadMessage(WM_QUIT, 0, 0);
}

Joseph M. Newcomer wrote:

That's what should happen. You should do
    thread.Create();
where thread is a variable of type CMyThread, and which has a scope that lasts as long as
the thread will be running. Alternatively, you can allocate it on the heap.

When you are reporting things like this, show the exact code, not just some handwave that
suggests what the code might look like.
                joe
On 7 Sep 2006 13:36:02 -0700, kefkastudio@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks for pointing that out to me. I created the class CMyThread from
ClassWizard wirh CWinThread as the base, implemented CMyThread * thread
= AfxBegin.. and I keep getting this one error..

cannot convert from 'class CWinThread *' to 'class CMyThread *' Types
pointed to are unrelated.

I'm missing something here..

Frank B.

Joseph M. Newcomer wrote:

See my essay on worker threads on my MVP Tips site.
                joe

On 7 Sep 2006 09:32:19 -0700, kefkastudio@gmail.com wrote:

I have a button which starts and stops my program from performing a
task. Everytime the user hits start, two worker threads do their
stuff. When I hit stop, both threads close down. Right now I have
some pretty dumb threads getting signaled with global variables. I'm
trying to find a better way to do this..

Frank B.

Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
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