Setting focus on a window

[pinkcheese]

Hi, I'm having a problem with my program freezing up. In my program I call the URLDownloadToFile function to download a file. The only problem is that the program locks up until the download is finished. The problem is that the function doesn't return until the download is done. Is there a command I can call inside the URLDownloadToFile function so that the program doesn't lock up. I've tried SetFocus but that doesn't seem to do anything.

[xds4lx]

Im new to programming things over a network or internet but are you using sockets? If not id suggest you look into using winsock b/c it will help out with what u want. Seach this board for "winsock" or "sockets" and you will find what you want.

[novacain]

Create a seperate thread for the download and give the main user interface thread prority.

[(TNT)]

I had exactly the same problem about a year ago, and i got around it with a seperate thread. A thread runs code seperatly away from your main program code. Heres a small example:

//Define your thread function and put all your code that you 
//wanna run independantly from your program.

DWORD ChildProcId;

DWORD WINAPI ThreadP(HWND hWnd)
{

//Your code here.....

ExitThread(TRUE);
return 0;
}


CreateThread(NULL, 0, (LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)ThreadP, hWnd, 0, &ChildProcId);

Hope that helps,
TNT

[pinkcheese]

OK, thanks for the help. Ignore the post below I was way off but I figured it out by looking at msdn.

[pinkcheese]

Figured it out