Re: The best way to yield processor to other users for long-runnin

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From: Paul fpvt2 (Paulfpvt2_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/14/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:59:01 -0800

Hi Mike, Larry or Tony,
I have 1 more question.
In my ActiveX exe, at the end of the processing in Timer_timer event, do I
want to put the "End" statement so that it will kill the ActiveX exe after
that ? If I don't put the "End" statement, the ActiveX exe stays in the task
manager.

Thanks a lot.

"Mike D Sutton" wrote:

> > Did you mean in my ACtiveX exe put a timer with an interval of 1, and call
> > that timer from my application ?
> > Then the timer in the ActiveX exe calls the method GetSendData, which
> > disable the timer and does the processing ?
> > Will it get out of the method while it is still processing even though I
> > disable the timer here ?
>
> From what I remember you have a timer control in the ActiveX EXE which defaults to being disabled, then have a method within the
> application that takes any initialisation data for the routine and kicks off the timer, this method is called from the main
> application. The timer then executes within the application and does whatever it's required to do (think of the Tick() event
> handler as a Sub Main() for the 'thread' if you like, whatever needs doing in the application gets executed within that subroutine.)
> If anyone knows differently then please feel free to jump in here, since I'm just going from what I've seen in a few examples, I've
> never used the technique myself.
> Hope this helps,
>
> Mike
>
>
> - Microsoft Visual Basic MVP -
> E-Mail: EDais@mvps.org
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>
>
>

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