Electronic Designer Resources

See this solution to making writing a file thread safe

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Simple Locking Approach

using namespace System::Threading;

Create a flag

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using namespace System::Threading;

Pause

This allows you to literally pause execution where you are in the current function – it just pauses this thread
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using namespace System::Threading;

New process must be in a seperate class

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If your application is doing asynchronous things, for instance a form has a callback function from a class receiving say some communications, then you will need to deal with calls to it in a thread safe way. The reason is that forms run on a single thread, but events in the other class will not necessarily be on the same thread. So to deal with this… (more…)