OpenEuphoria

Re: doEvents

• Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Jan 01, 2004
• 444 views

On 1 Jan 2004, at 17:47, Martin Stachon wrote:

> 
> 
> Rolf Schr=F6der wrote :
> > Evan Marshall wrote:
> > >
> > >  From the Win32lib docs under "Events":
> > >
> > > proc]
> > > doEvents (integer id)
> > > Gives control back to windows until there are no pending events to proc=
> ess.
> > > Category: Events
> >
> > Is this really the truth? I thought, DoEvents() is necessary under Win3
> > (a non preemtive multitasking system, but not under Win32, witch is a
> > preemptive multitasking system.
> > Do I misunderstand here something?
> 
> This has been discussed before. With Euphoria, we have only one thread,
> so if we are inside a routine, we cannot respond to Windows events.
> doEvents() is a trick, which process some events and calls event handlers.
> It is not ideal, though. The best solution would be to have at least two
> threads, one doing computing, and the other processing Windows events,
> those needing no additional processing would go back to Windows, and the ot=
> her
> would be queued up for calling Euphoria event handlers.

See Al Getz at:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/displayserver205.zip

Yes, i know that url is mangled, and the zip is not found, but that is how the 
RDS url http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-
bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&gen=on&keywords=windows+server gives 
it.

Kat