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From: bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Yield?
Message-ID: <106580016@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Jan 89 18:25:11 GMT
References: <33575@grapevine.uucp>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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>>The only problem with this is that your application will still control the
>>CPU, starving all other tasks.  Task switching isn't done unless the 
>>messgae queue is empty.
>
>Not true!  The WM_TIMER method does work.  I have used it for several
>programs.  Other tasks are not starved, because the queue is empty between
>timer messages.

You're right; I was thinking of the other technique that was proposed,
doing a chunk of processing and sending yourself a message to continue.  Sorry.

--Bill Turner