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Article #14104

Re: Calling a function from ServiceExecute.

#14104
From: MWP
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 04:34
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Your a legend...

Thanks for that Remy.

"Remy Lebeau \(TeamB\)" <gambit47@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>"MWP" <mwp@overclockers.com.au> wrote in message
>news:3f4b8e1f$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
>> void execute_cc2(bool *Terminated, TServiceThread *Thread)
>> {
>>   while (!*Terminated)
>>   {
>>     //does stuff
>>     Sleep(10);
>>     Thread->ProcessRequests(false)
>>   }
>> }
>
>That will not work.  You should change the Terminated parameter to take a
>TService* pointer instead of a bool* pointer:
>
>    void execute_cc2(TService *Service, TServiceThread *Thread)
>    {
>        while( !Service->Terminated )
>        {
>            //does stuff
>            Sleep(10);
>            Thread->ProcessRequests(false);
>        }
>    }
>
>Even better, since TService has a public ServiceThread property, you can do
>away with execute_cc2's Thread parameter altogether:
>
>    void execute_cc2(TService *Service)
>    {
>        while( !Service->Terminated )
>        {
>            //does stuff
>            Sleep(10);
>            Service->ServiceThread->ProcessRequests(false);
>        }
>    }
>
>> BTW... whats the difference between a "Property" and a variable then?
>
>A property is not a variable.  It may happen to use a variable internally,
>but it is actually a couple of getter/setter methods instead that perform
>operations when invoked.  A variable is just a block of memory.  In your
>original code, you were trying to take an address of a class method, not a
>raw variable.
>
>
>Gambit
>
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