Re: listbox updating problem

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 8 May 2007 09:53:56 -0700
Message-ID:
<#ieFNGZkHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
Your routine to read the port is probably blocking the messaging. You could
put the query routine in a thread and post messages to the UI that updates
the listbox, or put something in your reading loop like:

//
// Release main thread for background processing
//
void GiveTime()
{
 // Idle until the screen redraws itself, et. al.
 MSG msg;
 while (::PeekMessage( &msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_NOREMOVE ) ) {
  if (!AfxGetThread()->PumpMessage( )) {
   ::PostQuitMessage(0);
   break;
  }
 }
 // let MFC do its idle processing
 LONG lIdle = 0;
 while (AfxGetApp()->OnIdle(lIdle++ ))
  ;
}

to allow messages to be processed at different times. You could do
something like:

while(myDataIsBeingRead) {
    ReadOneBlockOfData();
    UpdateListBox();
    GiveTime();
}

Tom
"Z.K." <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:%23mbMhCZkHHA.4936@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

I have a routine that goes out and queries a access point, but I write a
message to a listbox first. The routine works fine, but I am having
trouble displaying the message at the proper time. It only displays the
message after the serial port routine is complete and displays all the data
at one time. Is there a way to display the data when I actually want it
displayed? I tried the listbox methods .ShowWindow() and .UpdateData() ,
but these did not work.

   Z.K>

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