April 2002
Beginner
413 pages
10h 46m
English
Some developers don't realize it, but they have been using threading every time they create an application. Once a process is launched, the operating system creates a primary thread for that application. Regardless of the type of application, there is no way to create an application that contains no threads in it. This lesson deals with the procedure for creating multiple threads within a single process.
There are many instances in which creating a multiple-threaded application is advantageous. In the preceding example, the advantage to creating a separate worker thread in addition to the primary thread, which handles the user interface, is that the user interface still remains responsive to the user and ...
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