I've stepped through my code very carefully, and I'll describe exactly what happens. Here is the high level of the code that I'm debugging. BeginInterfacing() is the function that creates the child thread which plays the animated gif file, and EndInterfacing destroys it. This code is all happening within an event handler from a dialog. m_pParent->BeginInterfacing(); m_pID->GetWindowText(m_pParent->m_strName); m_pPass->GetWindowText(m_pParent->m_strPass); m_pParent->m_strName.Remove(' '); m_pParent->m_pSub = new CSubscriber(m_pParent->m_strName); if (!m_pParent->m_pSub->VerifyPassword(m_pParent->m_strPass)) { m_pParent->EndInterfacing(); MessageBox("Invalid Password", "Invalid Password", MB_OK|MB_ICONSTOP); delete m_pParent->m_pSub; m_pParent->m_pSub = NULL; return -1; } m_pParent->EndInterfacing(); If I step over BeginInterfacing, no dialog box comes up and none of my breakpoints are triggered (I have them in Run(), EndInterfacing(), and DoModal() of the dialog box that the child thread creates). I can step through until the line m_pParent->m_pSub = new CSubscriber(m_pParent->m_strName); When I try to F10 over this line, my breakpoint in Run() of my CWinThread class is triggered: int CInterface::Run() { m_pD.DoModal(); if (m_pParent) m_pParent->PostMessage(WM_KILLINTERFACING); return 0; } m_pD is the dialog that will loop the gif file. Next, I step into DoModal.... if (hWndParent != NULL && ::IsWindowEnabled(hWndParent)) { ::EnableWindow(hWndParent, FALSE); bEnableParent = TRUE; } TRY { // create modeless dialog AfxHookWindowCreate(this); At the line ::EnableWindow(hWndParent, FALSE), execution seems to switch back to where it left off in the top level function, and m_pParent->m_pSub = new CSubscriber(m_pParent->m_strName); gets executed next. In fact, execution never returns to where it left off in DoModal() (or any other part of the child thread) until much later, where it goes right back to bEnableParent = TRUE and then creates the modal dialog box normally, but of course it does this at a time I can't pin down and so I have this modal dialog box looping a gif without any way to stop it, so I have to CTRL+ALT+DEL the program, or stop debugging. The thing I would really like to figure out is why the thread stopped where it did (in the middle of DoModal) and then decided to start back up again when the main thread isn't doing any process
