TimerQueueTimers..A question..

[montiee]

I'm using the timerqueuetimers that MFC provides in my app. No problems at the moment with them but I do have one puzzling question I can't answer. With TimerQueueTimers you are allowed to supply context or user specified data as a parameter which can be used when the callback gets invoked. Now if I want to stop the timer (ie delete it) I call DeleteTimerQueueTimer(). All well and good but how do I delete any user data I've attached as a parameter when I created the timer? The documentation says nothing. Does it automatically delete the parameter? Appreciate any input.

[Mark Salsbery]

jbem wrote:

the timerqueuetimers that MFC provides

That's Win32 :)

jbem wrote:

Does it automatically delete the parameter?

No! You are responsible for cleaning up any resources associated with the user param if necessary.

Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

[montiee]

Mark Salsbery wrote: No! You are responsible for cleaning up any resources associated with the user param if necessary. That's what I feared. So how does one delete the parameter one supplied at timer creation. Surely we don't have to keep track of a map that maps handles to parameters to delete?! I'd be interested in hearing a confirmation that I need to keep track of it all myself but in the meantime I'll start making the changes to keep track of it because I have a feeling that's the way it's headed. It's be nice if the documentation mentioned these things..

modified on Monday, September 1, 2008 3:29 PM