Re: 100 % CPU in Borland 3.1

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From: Jim
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 04:48

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Henrik Haftmann <henrik.haftmann@e-technik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote in message news:<3F1FDCCF.5035@e-technik.tu-chemnitz.de>...
> > We have an old Borland C++ 3.1 MDI application,
> > when running it uses 100 % of the CPU while sitting
> > waiting for user input.
> > We have the source code and were wondering what we could do to
> > make this application use less CPU.
> Look for an "idle" function. It will be invoked from MessageLoop
> when PeekMessage() returns FALSE.
> idle() must return FALSE too, then MessageLoop invokes WaitMessage(),
> and the CPU can sleep.
> If you find an "idle" function always returning TRUE, you have the bug.
> 
> henni

sorry henni
thats not useful old chap
the IdleAction function returns a void
you're thinking of a dialog based app, which this is not...this is an
MDI as i stated :(

cheers
Bryce

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