How to implement OnIdle function y a ActiveX control

[fiero17]

I am programming a ActiveX animation control, but can't to implement the OnIdle function in the COleControlModule class. The class CWinApp not send the idle message to the COleControlModule class
thank you

 

[discoking]

No you can't do it that way, the activeX doesn't support the onIdle() function. There may be different ways to get around it but personally I created a seperate thread to do the drawing, then you can get the onIdle() routine.

 

[fiero17]

thank you. I will create a separate thread to do the call to drawing routine.
thank you.