Process locks app until finished?

[John Rugo]

Hi All,
I have an app the runs something, for instance copies a file. During this
time my app is locked up. I have tried throwing a bunch of DoEvents in but
nothing happens to allow me to work on other parts of the program. Is there
something that can help here, or do I need to look at multi-threading?

Thanks,
John.

[yEaH rIgHt]

Threads. Go for it.

John Rugo wrote:

Hi All,
I have an app the runs something, for instance copies a file. During this
time my app is locked up. I have tried throwing a bunch of DoEvents in but
nothing happens to allow me to work on other parts of the program. Is there
something that can help here, or do I need to look at multi-threading?

Thanks,
John.

[yEaH rIgHt]

Threads. Go for it.

John Rugo wrote:

Hi All,
I have an app the runs something, for instance copies a file. During this
time my app is locked up. I have tried throwing a bunch of DoEvents in but
nothing happens to allow me to work on other parts of the program. Is there
something that can help here, or do I need to look at multi-threading?

Thanks,
John.

[Brian Henry]

threading will fix this up for you.. create your process as a sub you want
to run import the system.threading namespace and create a thread like this

dim myThread as system.thread(addressof mySub)

myThread.start()

thats just a generic example of it, MSDN can help you a lot more. Threading
is a good thing to know with process intensive applications
"John Rugo" <jr***@patmedia.net> wrote in message
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Hi All,
I have an app the runs something, for instance copies a file. During this
time my app is locked up. I have tried throwing a bunch of DoEvents in but nothing happens to allow me to work on other parts of the program. Is there something that can help here, or do I need to look at multi-threading?

Thanks,
John.

[Brian Henry]

threading will fix this up for you.. create your process as a sub you want
to run import the system.threading namespace and create a thread like this

dim myThread as system.thread(addressof mySub)

myThread.start()

thats just a generic example of it, MSDN can help you a lot more. Threading
is a good thing to know with process intensive applications
"John Rugo" <jr***@patmedia.net> wrote in message
news:eV*************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Hi All,
I have an app the runs something, for instance copies a file. During this
time my app is locked up. I have tried throwing a bunch of DoEvents in but nothing happens to allow me to work on other parts of the program. Is there something that can help here, or do I need to look at multi-threading?

Thanks,
John.

[Cor]

Hi John,

I add something to the other answers.

Threading takes more overall processor time than not using threading. It can
save total throughput time where there are detectable assynchronous
processes.

When the copying process is an assynchrone process, (your program is not
dependable from the error free end of the copying process) than
multithreading is in my opinon too the way to go.

Copying is a single command process. And therefore when it is not the the
situation above, than is in my opinon the solution to start a little splash
screen something has (pseudo code)

\\\
frmsplsh as formsplash 'with wait etc
frmsplsh.show
'copy process
frmsplsh.close
frmsplsh.dispose
///

Just my thought

Cor

[Cor]

Hi John,

I add something to the other answers.

Threading takes more overall processor time than not using threading. It can
save total throughput time where there are detectable assynchronous
processes.

When the copying process is an assynchrone process, (your program is not
dependable from the error free end of the copying process) than
multithreading is in my opinon too the way to go.

Copying is a single command process. And therefore when it is not the the
situation above, than is in my opinon the solution to start a little splash
screen something has (pseudo code)

\\\
frmsplsh as formsplash 'with wait etc
frmsplsh.show
'copy process
frmsplsh.close
frmsplsh.dispose
///

Just my thought

Cor

[John Rugo]

Thanks for the help. I have tried using this and it seems to work well

John.

"Brian Henry" <brian.henry[nospam]@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:OP*************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
threading will fix this up for you.. create your process as a sub you want
to run import the system.threading namespace and create a thread like this

dim myThread as system.thread(addressof mySub)

myThread.start()

thats just a generic example of it, MSDN can help you a lot more. Threading
is a good thing to know with process intensive applications
"John Rugo" <jr***@patmedia.net> wrote in message
news:eV*************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Hi All,
I have an app the runs something, for instance copies a file. During this
time my app is locked up. I have tried throwing a bunch of DoEvents in but nothing happens to allow me to work on other parts of the program. Is there something that can help here, or do I need to look at multi-threading?

Thanks,
John.

[John Rugo]

Thanks for the help. I have tried using this and it seems to work well

John.

"Brian Henry" <brian.henry[nospam]@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:OP*************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
threading will fix this up for you.. create your process as a sub you want
to run import the system.threading namespace and create a thread like this

dim myThread as system.thread(addressof mySub)

myThread.start()

thats just a generic example of it, MSDN can help you a lot more. Threading
is a good thing to know with process intensive applications
"John Rugo" <jr***@patmedia.net> wrote in message
news:eV*************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Hi All,
I have an app the runs something, for instance copies a file. During this
time my app is locked up. I have tried throwing a bunch of DoEvents in but nothing happens to allow me to work on other parts of the program. Is there something that can help here, or do I need to look at multi-threading?

Thanks,
John.