- // Deleting one object may have deleted other pending
- // objects, so start from beginning of list again.
- node = wxPendingDelete.First();
+void wxApp::WakeUpIdle()
+{
+ // Send the top window a dummy message so idle handler processing will
+ // start up again. Doing it this way ensures that the idle handler
+ // wakes up in the right thread (see also wxWakeUpMainThread() which does
+ // the same for the main app thread only)
+ wxWindow * const topWindow = wxTheApp->GetTopWindow();
+ if ( topWindow )
+ {
+ HWND hwndTop = GetHwndOf(topWindow);
+
+ // Do not post WM_NULL if there's already a pending WM_NULL to avoid
+ // overflowing the message queue.
+ //
+ // Notice that due to a limitation of PeekMessage() API (which handles
+ // 0,0 range specially), we have to check the range from 0-1 instead.
+ // This still makes it possible to overflow the queue with WM_NULLs by
+ // interspersing the calles to WakeUpIdle() with windows creation but
+ // it should be rather hard to do it accidentally.
+ MSG msg;
+ if ( !::PeekMessage(&msg, hwndTop, 0, 1, PM_NOREMOVE) ||
+ ::PeekMessage(&msg, hwndTop, 1, 1, PM_NOREMOVE) )
+ {
+ if ( !::PostMessage(hwndTop, WM_NULL, 0, 0) )
+ {
+ // should never happen
+ wxLogLastError(wxT("PostMessage(WM_NULL)"));
+ }
+ }