Re: Thread and Timer

From:
"AliR \(VC++ MVP\)" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:18:09 GMT
Message-ID:
<BIaCj.20507$0w.854@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net>
Joe you must be kidding, he needs a window in his UI thread just use timers?

::SetTimer works just fine in CWinThread. All you have to do is set a
ON_THREAD_MESSAGE(WM_TIMER,OnTimer) in your message map.

AliR.

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
news:jvcit3hs7gfnce0ttl9vsliqmfbcc2pv4c@4ax.com...

Is it a UI thread? Is the timer associated with a window in the UI
thread? (You may have
to create an invisible top-level window to get this to work...)
joe

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:42:20 -0700 (PDT), Stefano <posting@hotmail.it>
wrote:

On 12 Mar, 16:39, Joseph M. Newcomer <newco...@flounder.com> wrote:

Why not do something very simple: ON_WM_TIMER()?


I tryed with ON_WM_TIMER but it's never called.

You do not need a g_iTmer, g_hWnd, or g_iMessage here, if this were a
handler for
WM_TIMER. Get rid of them. I can't even imagine why they are needed at
all, since they
coudl be member variables of the CWatchDog class.


Yes you are right. I copyed and paste the code from the the callback.

Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
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