Peter: "My understanding of a worker is a process that can (potentially) run on different core or processor - what means, communicating with other processes with messages only, limited ability to share data, no interprocess variables, no GET / SET PROCESS VARIABLE and no UI.” I don’t see anything that indicates that the means by which a process is created impacts whether or not that process runs preemptively. Most UI commands are not preemptive.
"However, thinking about it, as user process is a worker, and it should be able to display UI, collaborative workers may be able to display UI.” Process 1 will display UI in V18, compiled. "But all 4D examples of worker's code use CALL FORM to display UI, so I would not try to display UI from a worker." Call form is a means of communicating with a form. It doesn’t tie back to how a process is invoked. The fact that a given command can be used to create a preemptive process doesn’t mean that it can’t be used to launch a process that supports a user interface. The New process command can also run code in a preemptive process. -- Douglas von Roeder 949-910-4084 On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 12:30 PM Peter Bozek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 8:01 PM Douglas von Roeder <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Peter: >> >> "Worker cannot display anything.” >> Why do you say that? >> > > My understanding of a worker is a process that can (potentially) run on > different core or processor - what means, communicating with other > processes with messages only, limited ability to share data, no > interprocess variables, no GET / SET PROCESS VARIABLE and no UI. > > However, thinking about it, as user process is a worker, and it should be > able to display UI, collaborative workers may be able to display UI. But > all 4D examples of worker's code use CALL FORM to display UI, so I would > not try to display UI from a worker. > > Peter Bozek > > ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
