Re: [BLACKBOX] WinApi tasks

From: [at]} <Alexander>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 11:18:07 +0700

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Hello!

AMAUN> I use a blocking network read with a busy wait in my eMail program,
AMAUN> and I want to restructure to get rid of this. One solution to this
AMAUN> might be to use a WinApi task for the email (instead of
AMAUN> Services.Action) and I am reading the MSDN web pages on tasks.

  To ret rid of blocking, one must only read as much data as there is
  available. I would suggest introducing a new method:
  CommStreams.Stream.Available(): INTEGER

  I've already got one implemented for the CommV24 driver, and it
  works just fine for me.

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 Alexander

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