Re: writing to gui from thread
kunal s patel wrote:
Hi all,
Here is a part of code:
#include "maindlg.h"
UINT MyThread(LPVOID obj); //thread function definition
class Cmaindlg
{
//this is the class of main gui with a listbox
CListbox m_listbox;
};
#include "sim.h"
#include "maindlg.h"
class sim
{
//another file
void proc(); //this function access the gui
void run();
}
Now when someone press a button in maindlg application i spawn a thread
like this:
UINT MyThread(LPVOID obj)
{
sim s;
s.proc();
}
The function proc is defined as
void sim::proc()
{
Cmaindlg* pmain = (Cmaindlg*) AfxGetMainWnd();
pmain->m_listbox.AddString("Hi");
}
Now when i try to run this application, i get an assertion error. I am not
able to understand what is going wrong. Can anyone explain me the way out of
it. Basically i want to access the gui objects from thread.
Kunal:
Threads should only manipulate windows that they have created
themselves. In fact, it is best to only have windows in the main GUI thread.
Use PostMessage or SendMessage to transmit a custom message back to the
main window, and have the handler update the list box. Both
PostMessage() and SendMessage() change the thread context to that of the
receiving window.
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