Triggering events in different dialogs with CAsyncSocket

From:
lil_soccer_player@hotmail.com
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
26 May 2006 17:45:46 -0700
Message-ID:
<1148690746.684717.193010@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
I just learned some MFC basics this past semester and thought I would
enhance my knowledge by diving into the world of sockets.

My idea was to create a Tic Tac Toe game that could be played over the
interwebs. :-)

I implemented the game as a Dialog based application which uses blank
buttons to form a "grid". (A strange way I know, but I got the idea
from an exercise in the text). Whenever someone clicks on a button, the
text of the button is set to either an "X' or an "O".

I set it up so that the application can act as either a server or
client. And, whenever someone (whoevers turn it is) decides where to
move and clicks the corresponding button to mark that spot, a message
is sent to the other player with information about where the person
moved. The problem arises when I try to set the text on the button of
the dialog that received the message. I am able to call AfxMessageBox
successfully and display the message that arrived, but all else fails.
I've tried doing this in OnReceive using the following code:

//MySocket is a subclass of CASyncSocket

void MySocket::OnReceive(int nErrorCode)
{
    // TODO: Add your specialized code here and/or call the base class

    TCHAR buff[8];
    int len;
    len = Receive(buff, 8);

    switch(len) {
    case 0:
        Close();
        break;
    case SOCKET_ERROR:
        // Error handling is done here
        break;
    default:
        buff[iLen] = 0;
        CString temp(buff);
                // this works great!
        AfxMessageBox(temp);

    }

    if(nErrorCode==0)
    {
        //m_pDlg is a CDialog* used to chain function calls to the parent
Dialog
        ((CTicTacToeDlg*)m_pDlg)->SetButtonText(temp)
                //^^Crashes the dialog the received the message!
    }

    CAsyncSocket::OnReceive(nErrorCode);
}

Intuitively I can see why the program crashes, but I suppose my lack of
understanding of MFC in general is what is hindering me here.

Any help is appreciated!

TIA

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