Re: sleep in a message handler function of a UI Thread hangs the entire application
"julian" <julianhp66@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi guys,
Yesterday I downloaded a demo project from MSDN named MtMdi which
demonstrates how to create UI thread in an application.
According to my previous understanding, a UI thread can handle window
message related to the window it creates in its own message queue, so if
the UI thread message handler function blocks, there will be no big deal
for the main thread of the application, which means the UI belongs to the
main thread will be still responsive.
To test my idea, I just called Sleep in one of the message handler
function of the UI thread and it turned out that the entire application
hangs during the Sleep. Can someone tell me why? Did I misunderstand
something here? Thanks a lot.
I think MtMdi has all the MDI windows on the same (primary UI) thread, so
sleeping in that will lock the entire app. I think (but am not sure, as I
last looked at MtMdi 10 years ago) that the secondary threads compute the
new position of the MDI windows' contents but all the windows paint on the
primary UI thread. So if you sleep in one of these secondary threads, it
won't affect the rest of the app.
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