>Okay I have learned enough and been through enough pain & suffering in C++ to create a working active-x.
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>I had big problems figuring out that a callback function was attemping to fire an event (custom or stock) in another thread, but I eventually figured out how to pass a pointer to that function into the C Library that is responsible for calling my callback function which fires a single event and sets some properties of the active-x itself.
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>However VFP does not recognize the event firing even though the activex test container and vb see it just fine...
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>Can VFP handle an event fired across multiple threads ?
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>Thanks
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>Greg Foote
>VFP 8


You should NEVER fire an event across threads through a direct pointer. You must post the message to a queue window on the main control thread and have that make the fireevent call.

i.e.

-create window on main thread.
-spawn worker thread
-in worker thread sendmessage to window made on main thread
-in window on main thread, fire the event.

You will get data corruption and bunch of other issues by not doing it this way.