Re: Where to start render loop?
I'm sorry but that is kind of ugly. I would recommend switching that to a
timer based loop. Once you do that, you can start the timer from
OnInitDialog.
You code will make it appear as though you exe is taking up 100% of the cpu.
Either way you can set a timer in OnInitDialog to call RenderLoop a little
later, after the dialog is ready to process messages.
AliR.
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Hi,
I have a dialog based MFC application that renders lots of D3D stuff into
its main window. Until now, I've started the rendering with a command on
the main menu. My rendering loop is just a big loop, like so:
void CMyDlg::RenderLoop()
{
while(true)
{
MSG Message;
while (::PeekMessage(&Message, 0, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE))
{
::TranslateMessage(&Message);
::DispatchMessage(&Message);
if (Message.message == WM_QUIT)
{
return;
}
}
Render();
}
}
Like I said, I used to call this function from a menu command handler.
Where should I move it so that it starts right after the dialog is
created,
initialized, and displayed?
Thanks.
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