OpenEuphoria

2. Re: multiple windows

• Posted by Matthew Lewis <MatthewL at KAPCOUSA.COM> Sep 18, 2000
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You're really not creating a new thread, just a nested loop.  It would be
the same as if you had a while loop within a while loop.  Calling exit in
the inner loop would only return you to the outer.  Even though it seems
like you've got 'separate' event loops for different windows, you don't.  A
message loop (often referred to as an event loop) in windows simply
processes the messages sent to any of your app's windows.  I've played
around with this a bit, to emulate dialog windows--the real thing seems
somewhat difficult to get anything useful out of.

Matt Lewis

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Mirwald

    I created a function that can be called that creates a TimerWindow that
simply
counts up about every half second. This window will function completely
separately
(or so it seems) from the original, it even has it's own message-loop in the
function.
    Without the message-loop, the timer-window will disappear when I exit
the first,
but with the message-loop, it continues to function normally. I thought
(there I go
again) that Euphoria could not create additional threads or processes.
   Does anyone know what this is analogous to?

Jason