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Re: Eu locking harddrives

• Posted by "Elliott S. de Andrade" <quantum_analyst at hotmail.com> Feb 06, 2004
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>From: Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de>
>Subject: Re: Eu locking harddrives
>
>Rob wrote:
>
> > Kat wrote:
>
> >> contrary to popular opinion, windows uses sleep(0) to deal with msg que
> >> on other apps, it's not useless. Modify your misc.e to allow sleep(0).
> >
> > OK, I've adjusted misc.e so sleep(0) will actually call
> > the system sleep routine, rather than skipping it.
>
>Does this mean, that we then can and should call sleep(0) in the same
>situations, in which we would use Win32Lib's doEvents()?
>

  No, sleep is for long loops used in non-GUI applications. doEvents() 
processes windows messages, for the application. sleep() allows *other* 
applications to do stuff.

>TIA,
>Juergen
>