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Re: Threads & PM

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From: Pat Gleason
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 00:31
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In <1992Aug17.094307.24775@wsl.ie> jja@wsl.ie (John J. Allen) writes:

>I'm having a problem with a PM app that I can't figure out.

>I'm using a thread to collect Disk Usage Info and appending it to a
>listbox in the dialog box but all the calls fail. If I call the
>function normally it all works fine.

>So the question is how can you update a dialog box from a thread.

Unless the thread has a message queue (which you did not state),
the thread must use WinPostMsg() and NOT WinSendMsg(). I hope
this helps.
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From: pgleason@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Pat Gleason)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Threads & PM
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Date: 18 Aug 92 00:31:45 GMT
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