Thread Communication in between UI and working thread

From:

asm23 <asmwarrior@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:33:58 +0800

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Hi, I'm using a SDI-based MFC application. and to create a working
thread, I add a static member function to CMainFrame. Then, I want to
know how does the working thread report some message to CMainFrame, like
   a CString.

here is my method I want to use(pseudocode):

//-------------Class
class CMainFrame : public CFrameWnd
{
    ...
    static DWORD WINAPI ThreadProc(void* pParameter);
}

//--------------Thread
DWORD CMainFrame::ThreadProc(void* pParameter){

    CMainFrame* This = (CMainFrame*) pParameter;
    ...
    CString * ptrString = new CString("xxxx") ;
    ...
    This->PostMessage(WM_XXX, (unsigned int)ptrString, 0);
}

//----------------Message handler
afx_msg LRESULT CMainFrame::OnXXXX(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
    CString * ptr = (CString *)wParam;
         ......
    return 0;
}

Note: This is the pointer to CMainFrame.

Is it a good method? Or, there are other better alternative. Since that
the Postmessage can only take two parameters, how can I pass a string or
a block of data. Are there any tutorials cover this topic? Thanks!

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