> >
> You mean I need to rewrite my entire server?
>
> Oh no...
>
Not that much.
Poor solution - add a critical section acquire/release around the public
string/array accesses so that your timer system can work safely.
Better solution - don't use a timer at all. Wrap your communications, (ie
string etc), in a class and use the PostMessageAPI to send a custom message
containing the instance reference to a form message-handler. This is not
only safe, but also has no avoidable latency and will have a better
performance than any other secondary-thread>main-thread comms mechanism.
Polling, with timers or any other mechanism, is not necessary for
inter-thread comms and always adds latency and CPU waste.
Rgds,
Martin
