threading question

[Beer]

I've seen many examples of people using while (pointer->nContinue) Sleep(0); in a CWinthread function to keep a thread going, as opposed to while (pointer->nContinue) { } I noticed that the former works well, whilst the latter sucks up your CPU and prevents your ui from being repainted in a timely fashion. So my question is, what's the ideal Sleep(ms) to keep your thread in a loop. The reason this particular thread doesn't return is because it manipulates a class generated by the original thread, and starts another thread as hey

[Gary R Wheeler]

Sleep(0) releases the rest of your time-slice, and the O/S switches execution to another thread.

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[Beer]

thank you hey

[Renjith Ramachandran]

while(sleep(0) { } solves all

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[Neville Franks]

If the thread has noting to do, you are better of putting into a wait state and using an Event to get it going again. Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows. Free Trial at www.getsoft.com