Re: this->EndDialog hangs with thread
Scott Kraemer wrote:
I can't delete s until the main dialog message handler passes it off to
the function to add the text to the dialog right?
void AddChatText(HWND hWnd,CString & name)
{
CString * s = new CString(name);
::PostMessage(hWnd,UWM_ADDSTRING, 0, (LPARAM)s);
//delete s; //creates exceptions
}
I do delete it in the main handler :
MessageMap:
ON_MESSAGE(UWM_ADDSTRING, &CTest1Dlg::OnAddChatString)
My Message Handler to add Chat String to modified RichEditControl:
LRESULT CTest1Dlg::OnAddChatString(WPARAM, LPARAM lParam)
{
CString * s = (CString *)lParam;
m_chat.AppendText(*s);
delete s;
return 0;
}
How can I clean up these memory leaks using this method?
Scott:
Obviously you cannot delete the string right after the PostMessage()
call. This would defeat the purpose of putting it on the heap in the
first place.
But deleting it in the handler should work. Are you sure it doesn't?
--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP
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