NEWBIE: Running multiple loops at the same time

[sigloiv]

I've very much a beginner to VB.NET, and I'm running Visual Basic 2005 Express. Anyways, all I'd like to do is run three concurrent Do loops at the same time. Is this at all possible?

[tylerb]

I've very much a beginner to VB.NET, and I'm running Visual Basic 2005 Express. Anyways, all I'd like to do is run three concurrent Do loops at the same time. Is this at all possible?

I assume you mean loops that aren't nested

this:
do{
something
}
do{
something
}
do{
something
}

rather than:
do{
do{
do{
}
}
}

If you are then you will have to lookup how to fork a process or create a multi-threaded application. You should be able to find some resources about either of those. Let me know if you have problems or have no idea what I am talking about.

[steveyjg]

Three nested loops in VB would look something like this:

        Do While someCondition1
            doSomething()
            Do While someCondition2
                doSomething()
                Do While someCondition3
                    doSomething()
                Loop
            Loop
        Loop

Three loops that aren't nested would look something like this:

Do While someCondition1
     doSomething()
Loop
 
Do While someCondition2
     doSomething()
Loop
 
Do While someCondition3
     doSomething()
Loop

[sigloiv]

I assume you mean loops that aren't nested

this:
do{
something
}
do{
something
}
do{
something
}

rather than:
do{
do{
do{
}
}
}

If you are then you will have to lookup how to fork a process or create a multi-threaded application. You should be able to find some resources about either of those. Let me know if you have problems or have no idea what I am talking about.

I have looked a bit into multithreading, but I haven't been able to find any resources/tutorials aimed towards really stupid people. If there's something you could recommend, I'd really appreciate it.

Oh, and that first loop example is what I'm attempting to do.

[RedSon]

Can you post your code snippit of what your loops are going to do. Multi-threading is a big can of worms you probably do not want to get into. It is however the only way to do things "at the same time". Depending on what your loops are doing you might be able to do it with just some clever programming tricks.

[sigloiv]

Thanks for the help everyone, but I figured out to organize the code differently to achieve the same effect. Thanks!