X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/17b7cac5e8d7ad502aff86505199545d133b0104..3694bb76c11d1ed1518f20a42f8907c948e190bd:/docs/latex/wx/tthreads.tex?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/tthreads.tex b/docs/latex/wx/tthreads.tex index c06ddbc3c4..794dd72778 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/tthreads.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/tthreads.tex @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ well. These classes will hopefully make writing MT programs easier and they also provide some extra error checking (compared to the native (be it Win32 or Posix) -thread API), however it is still an non-trivial undertaking especially for large +thread API), however it is still a non-trivial undertaking especially for large projects. Before starting an MT application (or starting to add MT features to an existing one) it is worth asking oneself if there is no easier and safer way to implement the same functionality. Of course, in some situations threads @@ -38,14 +38,14 @@ more robust and will undoubtedly save you countless problems (example: under Win32 a thread can only access GDI objects such as pens, brushes, \&c created by itself and not by the other threads). -For communication between secondar threads and the main thread, use may use +For communication between secondary threads and the main thread, you may use \helpref{wxEvtHandler::AddPendingEvent}{wxevthandleraddpendingevent} or its short version \helpref{wxPostEvent}{wxpostevent}. These functions -have thread safe implementation so that they can be used as they are for -sending event from one thread to another. However there is no built in method +have a thread-safe implementation so that they can be used as they are for +sending events from one thread to another. However there is no built in method to send messages to the worker threads and you will need to use the available synchronization classes to implement the solution which suits your needs -yourself. In particular, please notice that it is \emph{not} enough to derive +yourself. In particular, please note that it is \emph{not} enough to derive your class from \helpref{wxThread}{wxthread} and \helpref{wxEvtHandler}{wxevthandler} to send messages to it: in fact, this does \emph{not} work at all.