you're probably right about the global status flags working well enough. thanks.
Chip -----Original Message----- From: Tom Kingston [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 1:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: atomic operations in VBScript Using On Error statements and global status flag variables should do the trick. Hth, Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chip Orange" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 1:14 PM Subject: RE: atomic operations in VBScript > Hi Doug, > > Oh, for instance, get some info out of a particular dictionary object. I > test if it exists, and then when I go to get info out of it, I get an > error > because it no longer exists, because some other event handler has removed > it > (as it should); but these types of conflicts where objects are created and > modified and deleted by more than one thread really could use some atomic > control, and I was wondering if anyone had already solved this issue. > > It's not always dictionary objects, it another example two different > threads > need access to a single resource in a third com automation server; each > one > needs it for a few statements, before it can then be released to be used > by > another thread. without some atomic control here, they could end up > interfering with each other's use of it. > > thanks. > > Chip > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Lee [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 7:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: atomic operations in VBScript > > What specifically are you wanting to do atomically? > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 07:07:50AM -0400, Allison and Chip Orange wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to coordinate some activity between various event handlers and > timer > generated events in a VBScript. I was wondering if there was any way of > having atomic operations in a VBScript to do this? any other suggestions? > > thanks. > > Chip > > -- > Doug Lee, Senior Accessibility Programmer SSB BART Group - > Accessibility-on-Demand mailto:[email protected] > http://www.ssbbartgroup.com "While they were saying among themselves it > cannot be done, it was done." --Helen Keller > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 5154 (20100528) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > >
