On Thu, 31 May 2018, Steve G via Gambas-user wrote: > If you really are so good, then prove me wrong and actually show it to me > don't say oh it's here or it's there put it right out there and show it to > me if you think I'm so stupid prove it by doing that. Otherwise shut up > and just answer the questions. >
Now that's a foul attitude if I have ever seen one. In addition to what Jussi suggests, you also have select(2) at your disposal. You can create however many sockets fit into your Gambas process, have them do their work in the background and report results via events. Gambas multiplexes file descriptor events, without multithreading. While all of that happens, the GUI will be accessible as well. Finally, you should know that this mailing list has been deprecated a while ago. The new one is at https://lists.gambas-basic.org/listinfo/user About the underlying problem: Some people may know better than me, but multithreading support in Gambas is pretty much out of the question on a technical basis, if you ask me and unless _lots_ of work is put into that feature. If you look into the interpreter's very core sometime, you'll see quite some global variables -- at the very least those have have to be refactored, not considering more subtle races. But the real problems start with the components. Libraries which need special care when being multithreaded aside, the way many native classes implement virtual properties, for example, is just an endless supply of either data corruption or deadlocks as soon as you multithread. Of course, user programs will be affected as well. Quite some code relies on that fact that non- native events are synchronous, that the Raise keyword acts like a function call. And you can't blame the users for that. Gambas is a BASIC language and it doesn't have any constructs/datatypes dedicated to concurrency. PS: Notice how I'm not falling for your "I bet you can't prove me wrong!!" trick. -- "There's an old saying: Don't change anything... ever!" -- Mr. Monk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
