On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:40:35PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: >On Fri, 14 May 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 10:59:42AM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: >> >I'll cook up a muto based solution in the next few minutes now >> >that I understand your preference. But, I'd like an opinion on the >> >question above. >> >> Thanks very much for the offer, but please don't bother. > >Ok, good. I got sucked into an unscheduled meeting anyway. > >> I took this opportunity to do some of the cleanup that I was talking >> about. I also implemented a "close handle on final use" option to mutos >> so that the event doesn't stay around after the final thread releases >> it. > >That sounds like a nice, but difficult to get right enhancement. > >> I need to do a little debugging on what I have but it does try to clean >> up the windows code slightly. I even eliminated the thread event >> synchronization entirely. > >I tried to do that but got stuck when I discovered you can't pass the >return from CreateWindow in one thread to the GetMessage call in another. > >I look forward to seeing what you did and learning from it. Thanks.
Well, maybe I didn't do anything, since that is exactly what I did after investigating MSDN. I thought I remembered that this was the case but I couldn't see anything in MSDN which supported it. I suppose I should just have trusted Sergey on this one. So, nevermind on this wonderful enhancement. cgf
