Re: Can parent's timer handler execute while child window is being moved/resized/shown?
From what you have provided YES, OnTimer could get called before
OnSomeMessage.
Now it's not clear how OnSomeMessage gets called.
And OnTimer wouldn't get called until OnSomeMessage returns.
Ali
"Bogdan" <bogdan@domain.com> wrote in message
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Could parent window's handler be called while a child window is being
resized/moved as a result of a call to MoveWindow() or ShowWindow()?
Let's say that I have the following code:
CParentWnd::OnTimer()
{
}
CParentWnd::OnSomeMessage()
{
m_childWnd.MoveWindow()
m_childWnd.ShowWindow()
}
Both windows are created on the same UI thread. MoveWindow() will result
in WM_SIZE message(s) being sent to the child window. Is there a
possibility that at the same time any pending timer messages for the
parent window will be flushed and as a result parent's OnTimer() handler
will be called before OnSomeMessage() handler completes?
Thanks,
Bogdan
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