Delphi Cookbook - Second Edition

Chapter 5. The Thousand Faces of Multithreading

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Synchronizing shared resources with TMonitor
• Talking with the main thread using a thread-safe queue
• Synchronizing multiple threads using TEvent
• Displaying a measure on a 2D graph like an oscilloscope
• Using tasks to make your customer happier
• Monitoring things using futures
• Parallelize using the parallel for

Introduction

Multithreading can be your biggest problem if you cannot handle it with care. One of the fathers of the Delphi compiler used to say:

	"New programmers are drawn to multithreading like moths to flame, with similar results."
	--– Danny Thorpe

In this chapter, we will discuss some of the main techniques to handle single or multiple background ...