Using MessageManagerLock in a DialogWindow

General JUCE discussion
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Hi,

I’ve used a DialogWindow to create a preferences panel for my application. In this panel there is one tab which shows data coming in from a piece of external hardware, which is being polled on a thread. It then uses some sliders to show the incoming values.

I’d like to create a MessageManagerLock to lock the application’s thread out while I am updating the sliders, but when I create a MessageManagerLock object, it gets stuck trying to create the lock. I think it might have something to do with the window always being on top. I was thinking that so long as an always on top window is being shown the main application thread won’t relinquish control to another thread. In any case this problem is a bit irritating, because if I don’t create a lock, Juce throws an assertion error when I’m in debug mode.

Does anyone have any suggestions about what I could do to either make this lock work or alternatively how I could disable that particular assertion error?

Thanks!
Greg

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Are you using the tip, or an older version? I’m sure my revamp of the MM lock code about a month ago made it cope with stuff like this…?

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Hey. Yes, I was using an older version. I just switched to linking against the SVN version, and now the MessageManagerLock is working fine. Thank you for the tip (and also for improving the MessageManagerLock a month ago!).

Greg

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By the way Juce is fucking awesome! This thought pops into my head all the time when working with this library…

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Ta very much!

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that’s a true;
i was not happy by leaving facilities as “signal/slot” in Qt, and other thinds I found fine in this API.
With Juce you really “code less, create more” . :lol:[/code]