Hi Mark, On 02.06.2011 20:06, Mark Miesfeld wrote: > You can not do the equivalent of "reply" from a native method, as > Jean-Louis indicated. Rick had said that some time ago, but I > couldn't find the message. > > Since you say "creating a main loop on a separate thread to dispatch > messages." You might think about how ooDialog works with the Windows > message loop. > > There is a method, startParentDialog, that is implemented as a native > method. The native method creates a second thread and returns. In > the second thread, things are set up as a Windows message processing > loop. > > Within the args passed to the second thread is a pointer to the > RexxInstance. Within the second thread, the code uses the RexxInstance > to get a RexxThreadContext through AttachTo(). Then this context is > used to invoke methods in the Rexx objects in the Rexx program. This > works, because the second thread also has a RexxObjectPtr for the Rexx > dialog. > > You should / might be able to adapt that model to what you want. In > ooDialog, the OS handles the dispatching of messages to the message > handling loop. You would need to write your own way of dispatching > messages to the loop. Seems pretty doable to me. > Thank you very much as well for your explanations and insights ! Once I know which way I went (for what reasons) I will report back (as mentioned, this will take some time though).
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