Re: Sleeping...
Just to add to what the others have replied...
You may want to rethink a loop that requires a sleep call to pace it. I'm
not sure exactly what you're doing in your loop, but my experience tells me
that using Sleep, except in some rare circumstances, is a bad idea. Why do
you need the loop to hesitate? Perhaps you don't need a loop, but rather a
function that gets called on a timer (as suggested) and then you could do
away with the loop altogether. This is true if, for example, you're trying
to check on some condition ever few milliseconds or so. We used to do those
sorts of things in loops, but these days the process should be more event
driven IMO.
Tom
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Hi All
I have the following problem:
1. I built a DLL which have a for loop. The loop needs to "sleep" X
mseconds between each ietration. Also, the DLL has a dialog and
obviously its exported functions are being used by the client and
their input must be processed.
So I used Win32 Sleep(x) to put the loop to sleep but it of course
caused the whole main process to sleep, hence to the dialog to be
"stucked" and to the rest of the messages to be blocked until the
Sleep completed.
2. So I found XSleep function on the web which in essence implements
the sleep on another thread.
3. Now nothing seems to be stucked, but when I drag the dialog,
nothing seems to be updated in it ( I have a list control in which the
loop adds an item in each iteration - When I stop the dragging, I see
the next item being added.)
Thanks,
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