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cod3b453



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cod3b453 05 Jul 2005, 20:49
Hi

Just when I thought I had everything covered I find a DoEvents in my VB6 project Sad ... For those not familiar with it, it is supposed to allow all other threads to clear (process) their message queues before continuing, but I can't quite figure out how to do this.

Any help/clues/solutions would be extremely helpful.

thanks,

cod3b453
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Vasilev Vjacheslav



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Vasilev Vjacheslav 06 Jul 2005, 05:26
maybe WaitForSingleObject, MsgWaitForMultipleObjects or Sleep
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r22



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r22 06 Jul 2005, 17:19
SleepEx api is definetly what your looking for.
Code:
.DoEventsLabel:
...Your Code...
PUSH 0 ;event obj alertable = false
PUSH 0 ;millisecond delay (none just let other threads get slice)
CALL SleepEx
JMP .DoEventsLabel
    


OPTIMIZATION TIP (if you don't care about win9x TO xp/nt compat):
Always use the Ex suffixed or Nt/Rtl prefixed api's when possible because the shorter named functions call their Ex counterpart anyways.

You call VirtualAlloc
System call's VirtualAlloc WHICH call's VirtualAllocEx WHICH calls NtAllocateVirtualMemory
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cod3b453



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cod3b453 06 Jul 2005, 19:03
Thanks Vasilev Vjacheslav & r22!

I read the documentaton for Sleep[Ex] again and realised the bit about setting timeout to 0 Embarassed ... I must be going blind

I'll try that optimisation tip as well

thanks

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