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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Phil</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I came across the same problem. I got around it by
putting sleep(10000) in the execute method, when the thread wasn't actually
processing any data.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Todd.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=phil@tumonz.co.nz href="mailto:phil@tumonz.co.nz">Phil Middlemiss</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=delphi@ns3.123.co.nz
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 15, 2004 11:16
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [DUG] Thread processes</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a thread that sits in the background
waiting for input from a COM port. the execute method simple has these
two lines:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> while not Terminated
do<BR> Application.ProcessMessages;<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The problem with this is that the processor usage
is very high, even if the thread is doing nothing but sitting there calling
processmessages.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The main application thread doesn't have this
problem, yet it also has a message handling routine. </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Is there a way to avoid this problem in threads?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Phil.</DIV></FONT>
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