Re: [OT?] Reading hardware from thread
My suggestion is to use a seperate thread to perform the I/O reading. Inside
the thread:
hTimer = CreateWaitableTimer(..);
SetWaitableTimer(hTimer, ...);
do
{
ReadIo(...);
Do something with the reading result (for example, send a usre defined
message to your maim thread for the reading) ....
SetWaitableTimer(hTimer, ...);
WaitForSingleObject(hTimer, ...);
} while (exit_condition);
This way, your main app. can go on to do its own thing utill it receives the
result from the I/O reading; or if it has nothing to do, just wait on the
I/O reading thread using WaitForSingleObject.
Eric
"Anders Eriksson" <andis59@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hello,
This might be a slightly Off Topic question but I don't know where else to
put it.
I have a digital I/O PCI Card that I have to read at least once every 35
ms
(We are using the I/O card for communicating with an PLC that has about 35
ms cycle time.
I have tried using OnTimer() but it will not work with these small times.
So I was thinking that I maybe could start a thread that reads the I/O
card
continuously in a loop and creates Events Messages when something changes.
Since I haven't done anything like this before I just want to check with
you guys and girls if it's a stupid idea or not!?
Any suggestion on how to solve the problem would be appreciated!
// Anders
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