Re: How to Trigger the Main Program from a Timer Procedure?

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 07:08

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Phuoc Can HUA wrote:

>In my main program, there's a 'Next' button which can be triggered by the 
>user to load the next file. Can I trigger a button event from the timer and pretend 
>the user press the 'Next' button?

Yes. the Next button has an ID. If you look in your Main, you should
see the NextButtonID I think in the WM_COMMAND section.  You would
just SendMessage( hMainWnd, WM_COMMAND, NextButtonID, 0 );
Oh, wait, that's blocking... Use PostMessage instead.

> Is that a good idea?

AFAIK.

> or better trigger a separate event to call the procedure directly?

Ok also, but a little more work.

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