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echo: os2prog
to: John Beal
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1996-01-27 02:46:20
subject: Gen`L Threading Question

JB>
  > 1.  I'm thinking that the main thread should create child windows
  > and manage them and their messages, creating threads as necessary
  > for display, calculation, etc.  Or should each editor window have
  > its own message queue (and therefore, thread)?
JB>

  Rare is the PM application that requires multiple threads executing
  message loops (WinGetMessage et al.).  Your program certainly does not
  sound like one.  One message loop (in the main thread) is perfectly
  adequate.

JB>
  > 2.  Is it kosher to use the same function as the entry point in
  > a thread, even if that function is currently running another
  > thread?
JB>

  Yes.

  > JdeBP <
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