Re: multi-threading fundementals?
Function pointers are not thread-bound.
Thread is just an execution stream, with its own CPU context. A function
doesn't know thread concept; a thread doesn't know function concept. If you
call a function through a pointer, it's executed in the current thread.
Though you can have COM objects, where actual code of a method is executed
in another process, or even on another computer, but that's concept of
remote procedure call (RPC).
<runcyclexcski@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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"sending a message" is exactly the problem. Operations on windows use
SendMessage to the window. If thread 1 does a SendMessage to a window
created by thread 2 then thread 1 becomes suspended, waiting for thread
2 to process the message and return. Only then does SendMessage return
to thread 1. You have to avoid cross-thread SendMessage calls to get
the concurrent execution advantages of multithreading.
The solution is for thread 1 to PostMessage a user-defined message to a
thread 1 window, asking it to perform whatever updates are needed.
PostMessage will return quickly, without waiting for thread 2 to do
something.
Scott - I am sorry for the nomenclature confusion. Now I understand
what the difference between Pst and Send is. Is it the same way with
function execution? That is, if i try to execute a function in thread 1
by calling its pointer in thread 2, does thread 2 wait for thread 1 to
respond?
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