Re: Need help solving a threading issue
"shadowulf" <vince@nextevolution.com.au> wrote in message
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Hi folks,
I have an MFC application that has some GUI functionality. It's main
thead creates a worker thread (using AfxBeginThread), and this worker
thread needs to create an instance of a class (which we'll call
'network' for now) which does some TCP/IP networking stuff;
functionality achieved by inheriting from another class. Also, The
'network' class and the main thead talk to each other via PostMessage.
Now my problem is that I can't figure out how to instantiate the
network class to get everything to work. Here's my attempts and
resultant failures:
[snip]
If your secondary thread which has the network class needs to handle Windows
messages, it can't be a "worker" thread; it must be a "UI" thread (even
though it has no UI, since this means it pumps the Windows messages using
GetMessage/DispatchMessage). Use AfxBeginThread(), the one which takes a
CRuntimeClass of your CWinThread-derived class.
Does your worker thread really need to receive messages in order to work?
Perhaps instead of receiving messages, you could re-work it to wait on
events. A worker thread can still call PostMessage(), so if all it needs to
do is transfer messages TO the primary thread, you can keep what you have.
-- David
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