Thread: MFC Dialog App Screen Refresh Question

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    MFC Dialog App Screen Refresh Question

    Greetings all, I have created a Dialog based MFC application that connects to the registry on remote machines and make a few changes. I have created a single command button that runs all the reg changes. The reg changes take some time ( about 5 mins ) and during that time the dialog screen is never repainted. Is there a function i can call to force a repaint after each reg change?

    Thanks for your time.
    Scott

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    The reason why it isnt repainting is that the window's thread is busy doing whatever registry editing task you have given it.....You might want to consider moving the registry work to a seperate thread........that will free up your GUI to do whatever (reporting back progress...etc)

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    Correct. One solution is a worker thread.

    Kuphryn

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