Chapter 17 Writing Multithreaded Applications
Most of the time, the event-driven nature of GUI programming maintains a good illusion of handling multiple tasks simultaneously. Redrawing a window usually takes a tiny fraction of a second, and user input can be handled rapidly. However, there are times when a task cannot easily be broken down into small chunks handled by a single thread, and this is where multithreaded programming becomes useful. This chapter shows you how threads can be controlled in wxWidgets, and it ends with some alternatives to using threads.
When to Use Threads, and When Not To
A thread is basically a path of execution through a program. Threads are sometimes called lightweight processes, but the fundamental difference ...
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