Re: Floating window beside the main app window
"Victor" <big.boss@chefmail.de> wrote in message
news:1182854009.716990.304390@c77g2000hse.googlegroups.com
In my project there is a thread function that runs OK. This function
calls just after the thread start another func
CreateScreenWindow(theApp.m_hInstance);
Its purpose is to create an additional window displaying some extra
output data.
If you create a window on a thread, you are also responsible for running
a message pump on that thread (see GetMessage, DispatchMessage). It
appears that you are creating a window on a worker thread that has no
intention of running a message pump and delivering messages to this
window. The frozen, unresponsive window is a predictable outcome of this
design.
Create the window on the main thread, have the worker post messages to
it to update progress indicators.
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