Re: Using HANDLE in different class & thread

From:

"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.c++

Date:

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:19:51 -0400

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Scott McPhillips [MVP] wrote:

"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net> wrote in message
news:ff8or7$u97$1@news.datemas.de...

Donos wrote:

I have a HANDLE to an Event, like this..

HANDLE h = ::CreateEvent(NULL, FALSE, FALSE, NULL);

This is running in one thread in one class. For example we will call
that class as "Class A"

Now i want to use this HANDLE in another thread in another class to
call SetEvent(h); This is "Class B"

I tried creating a pointer to Class A and using it, But it gets an
invalid HANDLE.

Any idea how this can be done?

This is not a C++ language question. This is a Windows programming
question. Please ask Windows programming questions in the Windows
programming newsgroup.

V: It is a very fundamental C++ language question, even though it uses
Windows terms. The OP clearly needs help with C++ concepts.

Might be. As I read it, the question was similar to "I create an event
in thread 1, then I need to call SetEvent() for that event in thread 2,
how do I do it? How the hell is that a fundamental C++ question?

Donos: The problem stems from a lack of understanding of the
[..]

V
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