Re: cross-thread update requests

nummish wrote:

> this.EventHandler.AddPendingEvent(new UpdateUIEvent(_GuiUiId));
> where _GuiUiId is assigned in the constructor by calling this.UniqueID();

The wxUpdateUI event is not the right event for calling
Refresh() on some window. Just send a command event with
a new event type to the window to be refreshed and catch
the event there.

  Robert

> 
> 
> On 5/12/05, Greg Hewgill <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  
> > 
> > I'm writing an application that has a GUI and needs to have a separate
> > network communications thread (the network communications will often block
> > so it's not appropriate to do the network stuff in the UI thread). What I
> > need to do is send some kind of request to the associated GUI window to
> > update the display when new information is retrieved from the network. I was
> > calling Refresh() on the associated Window object, but that seems to be
> > causing lockups and crashes. It looks like I need to use AddPendingEvent()
> > but I'm not sure what kind of event is appropriate for this type of thing,
> > or whether such an event type already exists. 
> > 
> > What's the usual way of doing this? 
> > 
> > Greg Hewgill 
> > 
> 



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