Re: Problems with a secondary message pump
On Wed, 6 May 2009 14:26:08 -0700, Rob <Rob@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
Currently, my code is working out of just one thread, and the Web page that
you directed me to shows how to use CWinThread correctly with multiple
threads. (My mention of a worker thread was simply a request for a
multi-threading alternative to the message pump if that would be better. My
code would require less extensive changes, though, if I can get the message
pump working properly.)
You mentioned multithreading and in particular that you've never written MT
code. There are subtle traps lurking in naive use of CWinThread, and you
need to be aware of them before writing any MT code.
Also, the main point of my loop is to wait until a
process that I've launched is finished while simultaneously allowing messages
to be processed so that the GUI can update itself (as, for example, when the
user moves the window of the just launched app around). After reading the
documentation for MsgWaitForMultipleObjects(), I'm not too sure as to whether
or not that would serve my purpose. (I don't want it to stop looping just
because a certain type of message is processed; it must keep going until the
process is finished. The loop shown on that Web page does look useful if
MWFMO can do what I want.) As I mentioned in my original post, sample code
would be a big help.
MWFMO is *exactly* what you need to process messages while waiting on
HANDLEs in an efficient way, and my web page shows you how to use it
correctly, as it too has subtle traps for the unwary. You would of course
wait on the process handle to become signaled, which tells you that the
process has terminated.
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