'Simple class that allows you to implement multithreading in your app
'
'(C) 2001 by Philipp Weidmann
'API Declarations
'Creates a new thread
Private Declare Function CreateThread Lib "kernel32" (ByVal lpThreadAttributes As Any, ByVal dwStackSize As Long, ByVal lpStartAddress As Long, lpParameter As Any, ByVal dwCreationFlags As Long, lpThreadID As Long) As Long
'Terminates a thread
Private Declare Function TerminateThread Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hThread As Long, ByVal dwExitCode As Long) As Long
'Sets the priority of a thread
Private Declare Function SetThreadPriority Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hThread As Long, ByVal nPriority As Long) As Long
'Returns the proirity of a thread
Private Declare Function GetThreadPriority Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hThread As Long) As Long
'Enables a disabled Thread
Private Declare Function ResumeThread Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hThread As Long) As Long
'Disables a thread
Private Declare Function SuspendThread Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hThread As Long) As Long
'Returns the handle of the current thread
Private Declare Function GetCurrentThread Lib "kernel32" () As Long
'Returns the ID of the current thread
Private Declare Function GetCurrentThreadId Lib "kernel32" () As Long
Public Function CreateNewThread(ByVal iDownloader As Long, ByVal cFunction As Long, Optional ByVal cPriority As Long = tpNormal, Optional ByVal cEnabled As Boolean = True)
'Creates a new Thread
Dim mHandle As Long
Dim CreationFlags As Long
Dim lpThreadID As Long
'Look if the thread has already been created
If mCreated = True Then Exit Function
'Look if the thread should be enabled
If cEnabled = True Then
CreationFlags = 0
Else
'Create a disabled thread, can be enabled later with the
''Enabled' property
CreationFlags = CREATE_SUSPENDED
End If
'The CreateThread Function returns the handle of the created thread;
'if the handle is 0, it failed creating the thread
