Re: SWT/MFC UI threading question
"ultranet" <ultranet@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I'm trying to understand why SWT requires UI invocations to be made on the
UI
thread.
Well, you'd have to ask its designers.
so it appears it doesn't matter which thread calls ShowWindow, for
isntance. Is
that correct?
Yes. Any thread can show or hide a window owned by any other thread.
Not the right forum i guess, but a reply i got on SWT forum suggested that
since SWT is a multi-platform framework, even though Windows UI calls
don't
have to be on the UI thread, this requirement is probably in place to
accomodate other windowing toolkits, such as Gnome.
FWIW: There are plenty of UI operations in Windows that have an affinity to
a thread (the one that owns the window, btw) and simply don't work when
called from some other thread. And in _general_, it is better to cast all of
the UI code in a single thread and push lengthy background operations to
secondary threads.
Regards,
Will
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