X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/954b8ae60391d18b87a604e7919c87c0c6ae208b..5824f314a3ac14fb4f4c8c2db7823076fedbbee8:/docs/latex/wx/conditn.tex diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/conditn.tex b/docs/latex/wx/conditn.tex index e900499e26..777a3cd226 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/conditn.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/conditn.tex @@ -1,6 +1,15 @@ \section{\class{wxCondition}}\label{wxcondition} -TODO +wxCondition variables correspond to pthread conditions or to Win32 event +objects. They may be used in a multithreaded application to wait until the +given condition becomes true which happens when the condition becomes signaled. + +For example, if a worker thread is doing some long task and another thread has +to wait until it's finished, the latter thread will wait on the condition +object and the worker thread will signal it on exit (this example is not +perfect because in this particular case it would be much better to just +\helpref{Wait()}{wxthreadwait} for the worker thread, but if there are several +worker threads it already makes much more sense). \wxheading{Derived from} @@ -62,4 +71,3 @@ Waits until a signal is raised or the timeout has elapsed. The second form returns if the signal was raised, or FALSE if there was a timeout. -