Borland® Delphi™ 6 Developer's Guide

Chapter 5. Multithreaded Techniques

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Threads Explained

• The TThread Object

• Managing Multiple Threads

• A Sample Multithreaded Application

• Multithreading BDE Access

• Multithreaded Graphics

• Fibers

The Win32 operating system provides you with the capability to have multiple threads of execution in your applications. Arguably the single most important benefit Win32 has over 16-bit Windows, this feature provides the means for performing different types of processing simultaneously in your application. This is one of the primary reasons for upgrading to a 32-bit version of Delphi, and this chapter gives you all the details on how to get the most out of threads in your applications.