Re: [BLACKBOX] Long running command and Dialog.ShowStatus

From: [at]} <Chris>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:59:35 +1030

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: BlackBox [mailto:BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy
>Sent: Friday, 4 December 2009 9:04 AM
>
>Surely these problems (apparent hanging of BlackBox, and the
>fact that Ctrl-Break does not work as advertised) can and
>should be solved at a lower level than imposing lots of
>awkward logic into every application?
>

I suspect not as these problems are *application-specific* and under the
control of the application programmer. If you develop a single-threaded
Windows application it can only respond to user interaction while it is
'idle' and not involved in any other processing. A relevant article "Using
Messages and Message Queues" is at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms644928(VS.85).aspx

Note the comment added to the end:

"Lengthy operations should always be done in a separate thread ...
PeekMessage shouldn't be needed in modern, well-written applications."

Regards,
Chris

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Chris Burrows
CFB Software
Armaide: ARM Oberon-07 Development System
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/armaide
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