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nskd
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Threading

Post by nskd » Thu Jul 09, 2020 3:57 pm

Hi,

Is Macro Scheduler able to create threads and perform parallel programming?

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Re: Threading

Post by Grovkillen » Thu Jul 09, 2020 4:53 pm

I believe the events triggered by "on event" commands are handled in separate threads.
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Re: Threading

Post by nskd » Sun Jul 19, 2020 2:11 am

I think macro scheduler isn’t able to perform multi threading Processing like other types of programming languages like Python.

I’m trying overcome the main dialog freeze up when a push button was pressed for Processor intense calculation and data processing. In python, I can use worker threading class to overcome this, to prevent the main dialog from “freezing”.

Anyway MS can do the same?

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Re: Threading

Post by Grovkillen » Sun Jul 19, 2020 2:35 am

Compile multiple exe files is my take on multi threading.
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Re: Threading

Post by nskd » Fri Jul 31, 2020 4:46 am

Looks like Macro Scheduler isn’t meant for threading. That’s the limitation for MS.

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Re: Threading

Post by Marcus Tettmar » Sun Aug 02, 2020 2:20 pm

Dialog events, and OnEvent handlers are processed in a separate thread to the main script. That said, Macro Scheduler is designed as a high level automation tool and doesn't offer the same threading capabilities of more traditional, lower level programming languages.
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