Re: modeless dialog boxes
"LarryW" <lwdaddio@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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I have a VS 6.0 MFC dialog-based application. The main dialog has an edit
box for displaying messages as things happen. A button on the main dialog
starts a modeless dialog. The modeless dialog has a 'DoIt' button which
executes a long process, updating the main dialog edit box. I'm finding
that
the main dialog and modeless dialog are unresponsive as long as I'm in the
'OnDoIt' routine. I had thought that a modeless dialog box would
essentially
run 'independent' of the main dialog but that doesn't seem to be the case.
What have I misunderstood? Thanks!
If the modeless dialog is created on the same thread as the main dialog,
then it is using the same message loop and queue. If you're doing a lengthy
operation on that thread without dispatching window messages then your
windows will be unresponsive, as you're seeing.
You may want to consider doing your lengthy processing on a separate worker
thread.
Mark
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