public static TraceView Create(Form parent)
{
TraceView view = null;
// create it on the parent window's thread
parent.Invoke(new Action(() => {
view = new TraceView(parent);
view.Show(parent);
}));
return(view);
}
public static TraceView CreateOnOwnThread()
{
TraceView view = null;
using (var sync = new ManualResetEventSlim())
{
// create it on its own thread
var thread = new Thread(() =>
{
SynchronizationContext.SetSynchronizationContext(new WindowsFormsSynchronizationContext());
view = new TraceView(null);
view.Show();
sync.Set(); // ready Write calls
Application.Run(view); // view does Application.ExitThread() when closed
return;
});
thread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
thread.Start();
sync.Wait();
}
return(view);
}