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Article #13989Re: How to Trigger the Main Program from a Timer Procedure?
From: Bob Gonder
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 20:56
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 20:56
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Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote:
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>> How can the timer 'tell' the main program that next file
>> has to be loaded? Since the loading of a file could take
>> relatively long or even error, so that I don't want to put
>> it into the timer procedure.
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>Move the loading code into a separate thread instead. Either pass the
>thread an array of filenames to load in a loop, or else have the thread load
>a single file and then use its OnTerminate event (assuming you use TThread)
>to start the next file loading thread.
Or, if you really need to use the timer method you have a couple of
choices.
1) The timer triggers an event that the LoadFile thread is waiting on.
2) The timer starts the LoadFile thread which self-terminates.
3) The timer does SendMessage to the main program.
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