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Remy,

Thanks for your response, allways appreciated.

Just for my understanding, what are the possible effects of not using
Syncronize in a thread.

Thanks

Mike

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47.no.spam@no.spam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "mike" <mfbrowne@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> > Could someone clarify my understanding of when
> > to use Syncronize in a blocking thread.
>
> Call Synchronize() whenever you want to make a serialized call, meaning
that
> a given block of code is only called by one thread at a time instead of in
> parallel simultaneously.  This is particularly important to do when a
thread
> wants to access the main thread's GUI, for instance.
>
> > I understand that when doing anything with a form then
> > I should use Syncronize, but the question I have is if I am
> > using a Data Module to access a database should I also
> > use Syncronize.
>
> In general, yes.  However, some databases support multi-threaded sessions,
> so if you are using such a database, then you can give each thread its own
> session object and they will have the database synchronizing for your
> internally.  The alternative is to make a dedicated database thread and
then
> have your other threads post requests to that thread, so that only one
> actual thread is ever accessing the database.
>
>
> Gambit
>
>