I’d like to create a window on one thread, and then have that HWND migrate to one of any number of threads on which it will execute. My program will have multiple such windows. Is this possible or was the Win32 API not designed for this?
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I’d like to create a window on one thread, and then have that HWND migrate to one of any number of threads on which it will execute. My program will have multiple such windows. Is this possible or was the Win32 API not designed for this?
No, this is not possible. The thread that a window uses for its message loop (what you refer to as “executing on”) is defined at the time the window is created. You can create multiple threads and start message loops from them (and thus create windows on them), but this is generally regarded as dangerous.