Communication between threads......

[Rashid]

Hi !
I am just an ameteur programmer of VC, and know the basics of it till
yet. I am working on a project which is dialog based and the main job is
done in the worker thread while the main thread handles messages and updates
dialog controls. General program layout is this.
.................................................
In Dialog class:(CProgramDlg)
{
AfxBeginThread(ThreadFunc........)
}

In ThreadFunc function:
{
CHandleDisplay HD; // this is the main working object
HD.ShowDisplay(...); // All job is done in here.

return;
}
...................................................
I am facing two problems now....
1: I have to Update dialog controls from HD obj. MFC don't let
me do it as it is illegal to access member variable of
CProgramDlg( obj of one thread) from obj of another thread.
( I thought on using trasit global variables which will take
data in HD.ShowDisplay(),in here a a user-defined message
is posted to Dlg class, then user-define message handler
in CProgramDlg updates the dialog controls from global
variables....
Cann't this be done without globalization....
)

2: I need 3 timers in CHandleDisplay class. I can get one by
catching WM_TIMER message for this class. What about the
other timing routines. (precise timing is required i.e 20ms)

Thanx in advance,
Rashid.
SeaBird505@hotmail.com

[eric janssen]

don't use the SetTimer api if you want to do precise timing. instead create
a seperate thread and use the QueryPerformanceCounter api funtion.


"Rashid " <SeaBird505@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Hi !
> I am just an ameteur programmer of VC, and know the basics of it till
>yet. I am working on a project which is dialog based and the main job is
>done in the worker thread while the main thread handles messages and updates
>dialog controls. General program layout is this.
>.................................................
>In Dialog class:(CProgramDlg)
>{
> AfxBeginThread(ThreadFunc........)
>}
>
>In ThreadFunc function:
>{
> CHandleDisplay HD; // this is the main working object
> HD.ShowDisplay(...); // All job is done in here.
>
> return;
>}
>...................................................
>I am facing two problems now....
> 1: I have to Update dialog controls from HD obj. MFC don't let
> me do it as it is illegal to access member variable of
> CProgramDlg( obj of one thread) from obj of another thread.
> ( I thought on using trasit global variables which will take
> data in HD.ShowDisplay(),in here a a user-defined message
> is posted to Dlg class, then user-define message handler
> in CProgramDlg updates the dialog controls from global
> variables....
> Cann't this be done without globalization....
> )
>
> 2: I need 3 timers in CHandleDisplay class. I can get one by
> catching WM_TIMER message for this class. What about the
> other timing routines. (precise timing is required i.e 20ms)
>
>Thanx in advance,
>Rashid.
>SeaBird505@hotmail.com
>
>