Hi Darin,

am 10.12.96 23:14 erz„hltest Du All

 DM> I haven't done much multi-threading (read: practically none) and was
 DM> wondering if anyone would be willing to help me with the design of a
 DM> simple multithreaded object.

Is your program a PM application?

No: You my do all your work on one thread.
    If you have to do some differnt actions at same time you can use
    one or more threads too.


Yes: You *must* use an other thread for your file I/O because the PM messages
	must handled alway in 1/10s.

     Your PM thread is always waiting for messages. You can POST
	to them without having a own message queue by using
	WinPostMsg(hwnd, WM_USER + x, .....)

	The constant WM_USER is defined to give you a Chance to post
	or send user defined messages. So your PM thread can do
	anything your I/O thread is unable to do and the PM is not
	knowing on except to present you the message.

     You my syncronize your I/O thread with semaphores of any kind. 
	But you should block your PM thred ONLY by Mutex semaphore
	to block simoultanous access to same memory locations or
	other resources. DON'T block the PM thread by Event semaphores!


Herbert
	Member #53 of Team/OS2 Germany



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