Re: Continue application processing with mouse down on a menu
Re: Continue application processing with mouse down on a menu
- Subject: Re: Continue application processing with mouse down on a menu
- From: Programmingkid <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 23:14:18 -0400
On Sep 27, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Scott Ribe wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2015, at 12:19 PM, Programmingkid <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I just wish there were an easy way for the a task on the main thread to continue to work even if the user is looking at a menu. Using multiple threads has a lot of problems associated with it.
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> A simple way to interleave execution of two different tasks without using threads? You're essentially wishing for magic fairy dust.
You are right.
> Yes, there are ways to interleave two tasks without threads, but building a little finite state machine that interleaves between them, or coming up with some co-routine implementation and then yielding at key points, as in the old days of cooperative multi-processing, have way more problems than multiple threads.
>
> If you have computation that needs to keep running without blocking menu tracking and other event handling, you need to put it on its own thread, period.
I realize this now. Thank you everyone for your input
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