Agreed.
The thing is, in this scenario, the client in the other process will provide
a very rich GUI. By passing the window handle from my form in the native
app's process to my GUI in it's own process, I can set my GUI's parent
window appropriately so that clicking the native app's main window a
Matt,
Go with the second option if you need to block the GUI.
Hiding this sort of stuff from users in almost never a good idea. Most users
will accept an informed wait time over an apparently hung app.
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noonie
On 15 October 2010 13:34, Matt Siebert wrote:
> Bugger. As I suspected the orig
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Bugger. As I suspected the original call from the client is
blocked so re-entrant call
>>> you can't do that, then a modal form sounds like a good idea to me
>>> because
>>> if you are blocking the native app, then you should provide a cancel
>>> button
>>> etc.
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27;t do that, then a modal form sounds like a good idea to me because
>> if you are blocking the native app, then you should provide a cancel
>> button
>> etc.
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u are blocking the native app, then you should provide a cancel button
> etc.
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ea to me because
if you are blocking the native app, then you should provide a cancel button
etc.
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Have you tried opennet? I seem to recall using something similar in
opennetcf. ApplicationEx I think.
As a word of warning though, I discovered issues with click events
(and presumeably any event) being fired during the transition. ie, the
events would be lost when I was returning from the new m
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Sent: Friday, 15 October 2010 1:44 AM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Message Loops
G'day folks,
Aside from Application.Run() and Form.ShowDialog(), are there any other ways to
run a message loop in a .NET app? I'm not keen on rolling my own message loop,
I'm just wondering if th
G'day folks,
Aside from Application.Run() and Form.ShowDialog(), are there any other ways
to run a message loop in a .NET app? I'm not keen on rolling my own message
loop, I'm just wondering if there are other options already available.
Why do I want to do this? Well I'm developing an add-in fo
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