fork processing 2

[shetlandbob]

Hello,

If I have an application (i do as it happens!) that I wish to perform "backround tasks" can I do this by "forking" my use of the processor (i believe this is done in UNIX for any one who knows this?).

Scenario:

I have a main application that I want active and running all the time, while every few seconds I want to check another background process. Before you all shout "TIMER FUNCTIONS" I have tried these and they dont work. The reason is that my second application waits for a variable time before returning a result (this can be milliseconds to many minutes), thus when my timer activates this function the whole program will freeze until it receives a return signal from the secondary function. Hence if I had my processing power "forked" then only a percentage of my use would be taken up by this function, thus the main application would work.

Does anyone understand the question? If you do and have any ideas/clues I'd much appreciate them!

Cheers

 

[Zyrenthian]

You could use AfxBeginThread and have it post messages back to your app which you could process.

Matt

 

[PerFnurt]

As mentioned, multithreading is the thing youre after.

See faq116-5162

/Per

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[shetlandbob]

thanks guys that was exactly what I was looking for!!!