Hello,

I need to create an MFC app with no window. What the app is going to do is
backing up data from a magnetical disk to a jukebox. Now I have tried a bit
around and choosen the following model. I do a normal MFC Single Doc app
without doc/view support (to avoid of the commandline processing and other
{*filter*} side effects). In the InitInstance I do all my processing and then I
return FALSE to indicate we're done.

The problem with this is that I'm using an OCX and eventhough I can create
the OCX window successfully, not returning from the InitInstance causes,
that I can't call functions of the OCX.

How should I design the app so that there is no window, but I can use the
ocx?

Thanks in advance,

Matthias

If you're going to return FALSE from OnInitInstance, all your
processing needs to be done before that time.

Here's what I'd do:

In InitInstance create a CFrameWnd derived window, set m_pMainWnd to
point to it, and return TRUE.

In the window's WM_CREATE handler, start a background thread to do the
processing.

Just before the bg thread exits, post a WM_CLOSE message to the
window, which will shut down the app.

Well, actually, that's only what I'd do if I couldn't avoid using the
OCX altogether, which would be my first choice.  A dll API in a
console app would be much better.

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:19:55 +0100, "Matthias Steinbart"

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