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Topic: Report Control crash when deleting items

Posted By: JemeraldSoft
Subject: Report Control crash when deleting items
Date Posted: 18 October 2006 at 8:55am

Hi, I just started using the report control in the toolkit in my application but found some issues with it.

My application has some background thread that dynamically add/delete entries to/from the report control. However, sometimes the control crashes when items are deleted. Deletion are done using (index is a valid index):

m_lstAlarm.GetRecords()->RemoveAt(index);

If I run it in the debug mode, I can see that the crashing happens in one of the following places:
1. drawing routine
2. tooltip routine
3. on mouse move

seems like it''s trying to access the deleted record.

Did I do something wrong.

Replies:

Posted By: rmercer
Date Posted: 18 October 2006 at 3:21pm

Did you call Populate() after you removed the record?

m_lstAlarm.GetRecords()->RemoveAt(index);
m_lstAlarm.Populate();

Posted By: JemeraldSoft
Date Posted: 18 October 2006 at 6:33pm

Yes I do, is the following code right? or do I need to call Populate() after every RemoveAt():

           // delete the alarms associated with the disconnected server
           for(int i = 0; i < m_lstAlarm.GetRecords()->GetCount();)
           {
               CAlarmRecord * pRecord = (CAlarmRecord*)m_lstAlarm.GetRecords()->GetAt(i);
               if(pRecord && pRecord->m_iHostId == pHost->m_hostId)
               {
                   m_lstAlarm.GetRecords()->RemoveAt(i);
               }
               else
                   i++;
           }
            m_lstAlarm.Populate();

Posted By: JemeraldSoft
Date Posted: 18 October 2006 at 6:36pm

I also tried delete the row before deleting the record:
m_lstAlarm.GetRows()->RemoveAt(i);

Posted By: rmercer
Date Posted: 19 October 2006 at 10:50am

JemeraldSoft wrote:

I also tried delete the row before deleting the record:
m_lstAlarm.GetRows()->RemoveAt(i);

I don't see anything wrong with your code, however I just noticed that you mentioned this is running in a seperate thread. I would guess that's where your issue is at.

I've ran into this in the past where a thread removes records while the window thread is trying to process messages and is getting data that no longer exists.

You will probably need to do your removes using a custom windows message or figure out a way to lock the control from updating while you're making your changes.

To test the idea, can you just setup a WM_TIMER handler to run the code your thread would normally execute? Just fire up the timer to run every 500ms or something. I wouldn't recommend this as your actual solution, but it's a good way to confirm what's going on since everything will be processed in the same window thread.