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Running LabWin/CVI 6.0. Win2000. Have a simple panel with a textbox. Created another thread and from this thread I want to be able to know if the operator 'hits' a key on the keyboard.
Any event generated by a control will only be detected in the thread that created. So only the UI thread ( or the thread that actaully created the panel of interest in this case) will get any events generated by the controls on the user. What you can do is use the thread safe queues that CVI provides. The queues generate callbacks based on whether the queue size changed etc.. So when the user press a key, the textbox will generate a keypress event, you can pass this value to the queue, which in turn will fire the appropriate callback in your thread.
You can find the queue library under Utility >> MultiThreading >> Thread Safe queues.
I hope this helps If i missed the question, let me know
