Construction an object on another thread

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This takes some explanation. I am writing C# library that will reside on a printer running Linux/Mono. The printer has an touch screen LCD and I am writing UI elements for the the display. One of the things I need to write is a Message box. I have that done but I need to know how to write the constructor so that it MessageBox runs in a different thread and suspends the main thread until one of the buttons in the MessageBox buttons is pressed.

In other words, make it operate like a Windows Forms Message box

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Posted 2-Oct-13 8:49am

Railroadguy

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Richard C Bishop 2-Oct-13 15:14pm

Can you not inherit from the Windows Forms Message box?

Ravi Bhavnani 2-Oct-13 15:40pm

Google tells me a MessageDialog() should work. Have you tried that?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Oct-13 16:15pm

You can do it using Control.Invoke, but the whole idea is bad. You need to rethink the general code design.
Can you explain the ultimate goals of all that?
—SA

johannesnestler 2-Oct-13 16:21pm

MessageBox on different thread? Maybe think again about your architecture - and creating all UI from scratch can be hard - have you considered something like this: http://www.mono-project.com/WinForms (first hit on Google for me)

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