🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi to all.

I have to realize a small app that receive data through a serial port.

My idea is to build a Thread and poll the serial port for data.
I have realized this solution but the thread use all resource and when
thread start my up is blocked (combo, buttons, etc).

This is a portion of the code (objSerial is a object from the Synaser
class that I used for serial comm):


void __fastcall thrSerialReader::Execute()
{
  SetName();
  FreeOnTerminate = false;
  //---- Place thread code here ----
  if (objSerial != NULL)
  {
    while ((!this->Terminated) && (objSerial->InstanceActive))
    {
      if (this->CanReceive) Synchronize(ReceiveData);
    }
  }
  Terminate();
}

void __fastcall thrSerialReader::ReceiveData()
{
  Byte chRead;

  do
  {
    chRead = objSerial->RecvByte(5);
    if (chRead > 0) this->strRecvMessage = this->strRecvMessage +
AnsiString((char)chRead);
  }
  while ((objSerial->LastError == 0) && (chRead != END_MESSAGE));
  // If no data is present objSerial->LastError is != 0

  if ((objSerial->LastError == 0) && (chRead > 0))
  // No error and data present
  {
    ...here the code to manage the data received
  }
}

Any suggestions ? I'm are newer to the thread programming.
Some links to get documentation about threads in c++ builder ?

Thanks.
Fabio.