Hi Valeriy, Thank you very much, I'll give this a try. By the way: yes i did meant win32gdk :-) Martijn At 12:17 28/07/2004 +0200, Valeriy Onuchin wrote: >Hi Martijn, > > > Hi rooters, > > > > Sorry for bothering you once more with this famous threads question: are > > threads currently supported under windows (2000) with Root. > > - do you mean win32gdk? > > - do you mean TThread class under win32gdk? If it's so, TThread and co. > classes > in TODO list. IMO, this class must be rewritten in more general way > (without special purpose > http://root.cern.ch/root/htmldoc/TThread.html#TThread:XAction) > > - you can use Win32 API to create threads inside compiled code. > There are two classes which provides thread safety under win32gdk > TInterpereter and TVirtualX. > For example, > at http://root.cern.ch/root/htmldoc/src/TCanvas.cxx.html#TCanvas:Update > it's used as > > if (!gVirtualX->IsCmdThread()) { > gInterpreter->Execute(this, IsA(), "Update", ""); > return; > } > > > Or is there another way of having functions run in the background of Root. > > - you can use TTimer class. http://root.cern.ch/root/htmldoc/TTimer.html > you can connect TTimer::Timeout signal to "worker" function wich would > do > something in "background" > >Regards. Valeriy > > > I tried to use the TROOT::ProcessLine() which is supposed to be > > asynchronous under Windows but it does seem to block my root session > > whatsoever: what is the definition of asynchronous then? > > > > Thank you very much, > > > > Martijn > > > >
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