> I never got as far as testing this possibility - I had opened up the > question to a less appropriate MS group after the OLE ones came up > blank, and before reading this reply of yours I got an answer from > there - and we have finally found out what I did wrong. > > The article which covers my symptoms and explains how to overcome it > is > here: > > http://www.mvps.org/vcfaq/com/1.htm > > I have converted it to create a hidden window from the control's > thread context and now post the message to that from the worker > thread, before letting it grab the control and fire the event, and > finally all is well! (I > think!) > > Thanks very much for your help Ehsan... without you and others coming > back to me on this I might have just given up and never found the > reason.
I'm glad that you found the reason. I had read that page before, and if I figured you're firing the event from a worker thread, it might have rang some bells for me... :-) ------------- Ehsan Akhgari Farda Technology (www.farda-tech.com) List Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ WWW: http://www.beginthread.com/Ehsan ] State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people." -Thus Spoke Zarathustra, F. W. Nietzsche
