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CCriticalSectionGuard

$Revision: 7 $

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Description

This class makes it easy to use a CCriticalSection (an MFC class). The critical section is entered in the contructor and left in the destructor. This reduces coding mistakes when you have functions with multiple returns. When the CCriticalSectionGuard class falls out of scope, the critical section is unlocked. It makes cleanup easy. This ensures that the critical section will be exitted no matter where you choose to exit the function.

Constructors

CCriticalSectionGuard( CCriticalSection * section )
CCriticalSectionGuard( CCriticalSection& section )

Constructs the object. It calls the Lock() method of the CCriticalSection. The destructor calls Unlock().

Example

void CMyClass::Method( void )
{
   CCriticalSectionGuard guard( m_MyCriticialSection );

   if ( ::GetTickCount() % 2 ) == 1 )
   {
      return;
   }

   if ( ::GetTickCount() % 5 ) == 0 )
   {
      return;
   }

   ::KillTimer( m_WindowHandle, 1 );
}

Copyright, 2000, Samuel R. Blackburn
$Workfile: CCriticalSectionGuard.cpp $
$Modtime: 1/04/00 5:09a $