X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/fc2171bd4c660b8554dae2a1cbf34ff09f3032a6..749bb9f1291c3c967a25cbbd9aed98a89f7e1511:/docs/latex/wx/tthreads.tex diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/tthreads.tex b/docs/latex/wx/tthreads.tex index b6162f24ee..c06ddbc3c4 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/tthreads.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/tthreads.tex @@ -24,8 +24,9 @@ new thread for each new client), but in others it might be a very poor choice (example: launching a separate thread when doing a long computation to show a progress dialog). Other implementation choices are available: for the progress dialog example it is far better to do the calculations in the -\helpref{idle handler}{wxidleevent} or call \helpref{wxYield()}{wxyield} -periodically to update the screen. +\helpref{idle handler}{wxidleevent} or even simply do everything at once +but call \helpref{wxWindow::Update()}{wxwindowupdate} periodically to update +the screen. If you do decide to use threads in your application, it is strongly recommended that no more than one thread calls GUI functions. The thread sample shows that @@ -37,10 +38,16 @@ 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 threads, use +For communication between secondar threads and the main thread, use 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. +sending event 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 +your class from \helpref{wxThread}{wxthread} and +\helpref{wxEvtHandler}{wxevthandler} to send messages to it: in fact, this does +\emph{not} work at all.