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- From: grtorlba@nwlink.com (George R. Torralba)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: MultiThreading (was "SHOULD I DUMP,,,)
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 15:38:24 GMT
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- Message-ID: <31235147.5556878@news.nwlink.com>
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- Which just reinforces my feeling that to be a serious VB developer,
- you have to know C. Hacking and working around VB's brick walls is
- fun and somewhat gratifying. And then it gets old. And crazy.
-
- George
-
- In article , GIJoe <th_assoc@harbornet.com> wrote:
-
- >Rune Moberg wrote:
- >> The number one selling point of shareware these days (in case you
- >> haven't noticed) is that it takes advantage of the OS it runs on,
- >> in the NT/Win95 world this means multithreading.
- >>
- >> A newsreader should e.g. import news and email in the background,
- >> a web browser should not cease functioning just because you decide
- >> to download a file or print something, etc..etc...
- >
- >You CAN multithread in VB4(32). Use an external OLE to
- >start up a timer. Since that timer is started by
- >the system and not VBRUN*, it starts a new thread.
- >Any code in the timer event will execute as a
- >new thread. You can start as many threads like this
- >as you like, although the timers are memory hogs.
- >
- >There have been other posts mentioning this method
- >for VB4 EE C/S apps.
- >
- >-GIJoe th_assoc@harbornet.com
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