problem with overriding "OnIdle" method of WinApp

[Banks K]

Hello All, I am overriding "virtual BOOL OnIdle(LONG lCount );" method in my application. i think it should execute befor application start mean after initinstance and also at the idle time but it is not executing in my application. can any one tell me what i have to do for override this method. please share your knowledge. thanks bankey

[Mark Salsbery]

Your OnIdle never gets called? Have you seen this? OnIdle Member Function[^] Mark

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[Banks K]

Hello, now i read that document also but i am still unable to gets called "onIdle" method can you tell what i have to do for that. also i have another application in which, onIdle method gets called at the time of start application and end application i also i want that please tell me where i am wrong......

[Mark Salsbery]

If your OnIdle() override isn't getting called then I'd guess that your app is dialog based and your main dialog is modal. In that case, you need to use the undocumented WM_KICKIDLE message:

// Add to the dialog .h file:

afx_msg LRESULT OnKickIdle(WPARAM wp, LPARAM lp);

// Add to the dialog .cpp file:

#include <afxpriv.h> //Private MFC header - defines WM_KICKIDLE

// Add to the dialog's message map
ON_MESSAGE(WM_KICKIDLE,&CMyMainDlg::OnKickIdle)

LRESULT CMyMainDlg::OnKickIdle(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
// do your idle processing here

return 0;
}

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