Re: MS OLE questions

[Christian Costa]

Message du 08/07/03 12:45
> De : Mike Hearn 
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> Objet : MS OLE questions 
> Hi all,

Hi,
> Thirdly, why does MSOLE use hidden windows for communication? I've come 
> across lots of gnashing of teeth in OLE/DCOM forums about this, people 
> wondering why their app (and sometimes the whole system!) deadlocks if 
> they don't service the message queue in threads that use OLE. Windows 
> has had other forms of IPC for years, I can't see the logic behind using 
> the limited and broken message passing scheme for it.

IFAIK, this is how apartments are implemented and this comes from Windows 3.1.

Christian.