Re: Messages in and out on different threads - but send to client on just one main thread
Angus wrote:
Hello
I am developing an API, application programmers interface, for a
network client process. The network client sends messages to a server
on one thread but receives network messages on a different thread.
(Internally the networking class uses beginthread).
I want the API to send messages and receive messages on just the one
(main) thread. This is so single threaded programmers can use without
having to deal with the complexity of multi-threading.
The way I have implemented at the moment is for received messages to
be posted to a windows message loop which is in the main (same as
sending) thread and so messages received can be sent to a callback
function in the API in the same thread as used for sending.
This works but I am wondering if there is a more elegant solution.
That's pretty much the preferred way of getting notifications back to the
caller's thread... but as Igor points out, you probably don't need a second
thread at all. Try to avoid multiple threads when you only need I/O
operations running in parallel. Threads are most useful for number-cruching
of some sort (could be layout of a page for printing or whatever, but
something CPU intensive) running in parallel.
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