SET BACKGROUND TASKS ON command

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Dear friends, the command

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SET BACKGROUND TASKS ON

is compiled by xHarbour but not by Harbour. Any solutions/alternatives?

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[Silvio.Falconi]

dear Emg what make this ?

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

It activates the background tasks that you can assign using HB_BACKGROUNDADD() and related functions.

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[Silvio.Falconi]

is there some sample of it ? or can you make a test sample to try ?

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

There are two samples in xharbour\tests:

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bkgtest.prg
bkgtst2.prg

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[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Any suggestions? It seems that Harbour does not implement background tasks.

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[lucasdebeltran]

Enrico,

Did you posted the message on Harbour Developers´s list?.

Maybe you can also use a timer.

Best regards.

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Lucas,

Enrico,

Did you posted the message on Harbour Developers´s list?.

No.

Maybe you can also use a timer.

Last time I tried using a timer I found it not as effective as background tasks. I will possibly try it again...

Thank you!

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[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Tried. Unfortunately, as I remembered, the timer doesn't work if there is a loop without a SysRefresh() inside it.

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[reinaldocrespo]

EMG;

I confirm that a timer is not the same as background function. As I understand it, xharbour implements background processing in lack having better support for mt. Harbour on the other hand, seems to support mt quite well, thus you could simply submit a job to 2nd thread thus redering a better result than running a background job.


Reinaldo.

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Reinaldo,

I don't want to have multithread applications, at least for the moment.

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