Re: CWorkerThread and IWorkerThreadClient not working in my ATL COM server code

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Igor Tandetnik wrote:
"Edward Diener" <eddielee_no_spam_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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workerThread = new CWorkerThread<>;
workerThread ->
AddTimer(1,workerThreadImpl,reinterpret_cast<DWORD_PTR>(data),&workerThreadHandle);

AddTimer doesn't return a handle to the worker thread, but a handle to a waitable timer (see CreateWaitableTimer). Why you believed otherwise is beyond me. The handle gets signaled after 1 ms.

OK, my sheer stupidity but...

I do not understand the AddHandle member function. I am just trying to start a new thread on which to run my background processing. In the AddHandle call it says it takes a waitable handle as the first parameter. Huh ? Where does this handle come from ?

If I do a CreateThread I am returned a handle and can start a new thread .. How do I do the equivalent with CWorkerThread ? I thought I understand how this works but evidently I do not. I would have thought I get back a handle when I start the thread, as in CreateThread, but evidently I must pass a handle initialized from something.

The description of CWorkerThread says:

"This class creates a worker thread or uses an existing one, waits on one or more kernel object handles, and executes a specified client function when one of the handles is signaled."

I am not interested in signaling a handle just to run my worker thread. I just want to run my worker thread and be on my way. Maybe I am just using the wrong functionality and should go back to CreateThread ( or _beginthreadex since I am using C++ ), but I thought that if I program with ATL I should use this neat ATL functionality.
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