Re: Your advice about WorkerThreads vs UI Threads

From:
"AliR \(VC++ MVP\)" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:29:50 GMT
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<iawQh.4885$u03.186@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net>
There are times where a UI thread is necessary, for example if you want to
do socket communications in a separate thread then you will need UIThread.

AliR.

"MrAsm" <mrasm@usa.com> wrote in message
news:btc2139ct0v1oi9puflv24r5t7u6ochshh@4ax.com...

Hi,

I would like to do a computation and don't want the GUI to look "dead"
during this computation.
So, I was thinking about worker threads - the computation is done by
worker thread.

So I was studying Joe's essay about worker threads:

http://www.flounder.com/workerthreads.htm

But I also read on his web site about User Interface threads, and I
read that UI threads don't necessarily have user-interface objects:

http://www.flounder.com/uithreads.htm

So I was wondering if, for doing long computations, it is better to
start a Worker thread or a UI thread.
I was thinking about worker thread (also because I thought -
uncorrectly - that UI threads must have user-interface objects), but
Joe's essay about worker threads clearly show that there are several
non-trivial issues to consider with worker thread, on the other side
it seems that the essay about UI threads is simpler.

Thanks for your advice,
MrAsm

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