Re: [Harbour] Re: Intresting corner of info

2009-02-23 Thread Phil Barnett
Massimo Belgrano wrote: Another posting of Steffen that reply to xbase is the only multitread project require a reply? Steffen's Response to my post on Pritpal Bedi take on Multi- threading. Thank you for posting this. We should welcome input like this. It's very difficult to get a reasonably

Re: [Harbour] Re: Intresting corner of info

2009-02-23 Thread Przemyslaw Czerpak
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Szak�ts Viktor wrote: Hi, > Yes, a file find handle is closed only at app exit. On Windows > this locks the directory (not possible to remove it for example). Not only. FILESEEK( NIL ) closes it. We can document it or introduce new function. The second is important functiona

Re: [Harbour] Re: Intresting corner of info

2009-02-23 Thread Viktor Szakáts
> > > - hbct windowing has the current window as an app global > > data. This makes it difficult (or even impossible?) to > > start a new thread which operates in its own windows, > > as the threads are stealing focus from each other. > > (main app thread focus changes are difficult to prot

Re: [Harbour] Re: Intresting corner of info

2009-02-23 Thread Przemyslaw Czerpak
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Szak�ts Viktor wrote: Hi. > Thanks for this thoughtful conversation. > Just a few things that sprang to my mind regarding current MT > issues in Harbour while reading both Steffen's and your text: > - hbct windowing has the current window as an app global > data. This makes

Re: [Harbour] Re: Intresting corner of info

2009-02-23 Thread Viktor Szakáts
Hi Przemek, Thanks for this thoughtful conversation. Just a few things that sprang to my mind regarding current MT issues in Harbour while reading both Steffen's and your text: - hbct windowing has the current window as an app global data. This makes it difficult (or even impossible?) to star

Re: [Harbour] Re: Intresting corner of info

2009-02-23 Thread Przemyslaw Czerpak
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Massimo Belgrano wrote: Hi, > Follow prev > Multithreading as the ability to execute code in different code paths > is a feature of modern OS sinces decades. The problem with MT is that > it adds another dimension of complexity to the developers task. While > with single thre

Re: [Harbour] Re: Intresting corner of info

2009-02-23 Thread Przemyslaw Czerpak
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Massimo Belgrano wrote: Hi, > Steffen's Response to my post on Pritpal Bedi take on Multi- > threading. > Sorry to use your blog to comment on the comments of others, as I > think this is not the idea of a blog. Anyway please allow me to > clarify my statement. I said "clean

[Harbour] Re: Intresting corner of info

2009-02-23 Thread Massimo Belgrano
Follow prev Multithreading as the ability to execute code in different code paths is a feature of modern OS sinces decades. The problem with MT is that it adds another dimension of complexity to the developers task. While with single threaded apps. the developer needs only to think in a more or les

[Harbour] Re: Intresting corner of info

2009-02-23 Thread Massimo Belgrano
Another posting of Steffen that reply to xbase is the only multitread project require a reply? Steffen's Response to my post on Pritpal Bedi take on Multi- threading. Sorry to use your blog to comment on the comments of others, as I think this is not the idea of a blog. Anyway please allow me to

[Harbour] Re: Intresting corner of info

2009-02-22 Thread Massimo Belgrano
I invite everybody to vote harbour as preferred clipper compiler at http://cch4clipper.blogspot.com Thanks to last year of hard works of our special guru harbour is realiable and fast 2009/2/18 Massimo Belgrano : > From a user's POV they are probably the same. > > Maybe there are some aspects of

[Harbour] Re: Intresting corner of info

2009-02-22 Thread Massimo Belgrano
This is intresting post of Steffen F. Pirsig of Alaska Software Inc i think Bruce ment client/server technology in a more general sense not strictly related to c/s databases. Regarding your browse/incompatiblity issue. I totally agree with you,