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Which just reinforces my feeling that to be a serious VB developer,
you have to know C.  Hacking and working around VB's brick walls is
fun and somewhat gratifying.  And then it gets old.  And crazy.

George

In article , GIJoe <th_assoc@harbornet.com> wrote:

>Rune Moberg wrote:
>> The number one selling point of shareware these days (in case you
>> haven't noticed) is that it takes advantage of the OS it runs on,
>> in the NT/Win95 world this means multithreading.
>> 
>> A newsreader should e.g. import news and email in the background,
>> a web browser should not cease functioning just because you decide
>> to download a file or print something, etc..etc...
>
>You CAN multithread in VB4(32).  Use an external OLE to
>start up a timer.  Since that timer is started by
>the system and not VBRUN*, it starts a new thread.
>Any code in the timer event will execute as a
>new thread.  You can start as many threads like this
>as you like, although the timers are memory hogs.
>
>There have been other posts mentioning this method 
>for VB4 EE C/S apps.
>
>-GIJoe th_assoc@harbornet.com


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