Question

I’m working on a Windows-only wxWidgets GUI application that shall receive asynchronous notifications from a service process via a named pipe. I would like to avoid spawning a separate thread for pipe handle monitoring. Hence, I’m thinking about using overlapped IO. My question is: what would be the most straight-forward way of receiving notifications for the pipe handle in the main thread?

Answer 1

There is unfortunately no way to integrate an arbitrary HANDLE with wxWidgets event loop so the best solution is to use a separate thread and maybe call wxQueueEvent if you really need to modify the main thread.