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I have a TList full of objects (http-components, including TMemoryStreams) that I want to free. The problem is that it takes too long time. Therefore I would like to create a new process that handles this in the background. Does anyone have some code for this.

kretzschmar

hi sunemangs,

what does you mean with
>I would like to create a new process that handles this in the background

if you mean to start an other app,
then i don't think that this is possible

does it help, when you include
application.processmessages
in your freeing loop?

meikl

sunemangs

ASKER

Well, I tied that and it didn’t help. Isn’t it possible to create a process/thread (with CreateProcess) that runs parallel with the rest of the code ?

kretzschmar

hi sunemangs,

it should be possible to create a thread-object,
which will do the rest.

meikl

Madshi

Hi guys, another process couldn't free the stuff, since it would have no access to the objects. But another thread could do the work. Look at the TThread object. But be careful! If you change the TList object in the new thread AND in the main thread, you can get problems! Then you should synchronize your actions, e.g. with CriticalSections. (TCriticalSection).

Regards, Madshi.

sunemangs

ASKER

Does anyone have any code regarding the tread solution?
(I haven’t used threads before)

Edo082297

Look at the thread demo in the Delphi Demos directory

Edo

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sunemangs

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Thank you very much

/Regards

Sune