a newbie-ish question about windows programming

[Lost User]

I am writeing a windows program that runs a file i/o function that takes a while to run, and I can't figure out how to make it update the programs window while it is running the funtion. How do I get it to run the window's window procedure in the middle of the function? (I think that is what I have to do..) This is probably a really easy thing to fix, but I can't figure it out. BTW this is a dialog based program (a dialog made in the resource editor) if that makes any difference.. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You.

[HP]

Hi! Put the following function into your dialog class and call it in the file i/o loop. This will ensure that the window messages are correctly disptached. void CYourDialog::PumpMessages() { static MSG msg; if( GetSafeHwnd() != NULL ) { while( PeekMessage( &msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE ) ) { if( !IsDialogMessage( &msg ) ) { TranslateMessage( &msg ); DispatchMessage( &msg ); } } } } HTH Holger Persch

[Jon]

Thanks