Please read the whole thread you necromanced, you don't need Gambas to support multi-threading for that.
Jussi On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 12:27 AM, MacGyver via Gambas-user < gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I will give you a real life example of the need for multithreading. > > project to monitor status of computers on a network. this is done with a > ping to each system from a timer. the result is either online or offline > depending on ping results. The program is unresponsive to the user while > multiple pings are done in the background. multithreading would allow the > program to be responsive to users while other computer status is checked in > another thread. furthermore if for some reason a person had 100 systems to > monitor on the network, this will take time if many are in offline status > leaving the program unresponsive to users for quite some time. creating 100 > threads each pinging only one system then terminating after returning the > result would make it even faster as all pings are done simultaneously. > > So there is but one real world application for multithreading. not to > mention it would make gambas immensely more powerful. > > > > -- > Sent from: http://gambas.8142.n7.nabble.com/gambas-user-f3.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Gambas-user mailing list > Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
