Re: MFC SDI Windows Explorer type application related query?

Thanx a lot for the suggestion

Best Regards

"Tom Serface" <tserface@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I think I saw that Scott answered this in another thread, but one thing to
> add is that you will want to pace your updates to the status bar. Perhaps
> you want to only update every few seconds or every 10 or 20 files. That
> will speed up your read a lot for large folders. Your UI is going away
> because the process of loading the controls is taking a long time. You
can
> do a message check PeekMessage() during that loop or put it in a worker
> thread and update the status bar using a message to the main thread. If
you
> do a worker thread do not try to update the status bars directly (or any
> other window in the main thread).
>
> Tom
>
> "Davinder" <davinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Hi
> > My existing project is an MFC Windows explorer type SDI application.
> > Now there is a situation where a heavy process(reading hard disk) goes
on
> > for say 2-3 minutes & then based on this process a running tree of
> > existing
> > dirs in the system is created.
> > Also at the same time the status bar panes 0 & 1 are updated.
> > Pane 0 shows the count of total dirs found & added to tree.
> > Pane 1 shows the total size of the folders added to tree.
> >
> >
> > Now there are few problems here:
> >
> > 1.-->At the time the heavy process is going on & the user switches to
some
> > other application and then returns back, the gui of my application
> > disappears & a
> > blank white screen is displayed.
> >
> > 2.-->At the time the running tree is being created, if the user drops
down
> > some menu item or presses the left/right mouse button the creation of
the
> > running tree is stopped.
> >
> > I want to solve these two issues.
> >
> > After doing some surfing on the net i thing that using the concept of
the
> > Multithreading will solve my problem.
> >
> > Waiting for suggestions
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
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