SendEvent Method

thread_object.SendEvent Method

Sends an event to a specific thread to notify it that a significant transition has occurred.
thread_object.SendEvent(event_mask)

Prerequisites

None

Parameters

event_mask

A required numeric expression that specifies the events to be sent. Each bit in event_mask corresponds to a different event. Bit 0 (mask value &H0001) corresponds to event 1. Multiple events may be specified. The maximum event is 16, so the maximum value for event_mask is &HFFFF.

Remarks
Events are messages that are sent to synchronize one thread that is executing a GPL project with another GPL project thread. Utilizing events has several advantages over setting and polling a global variable:

The thread waiting for an event uses almost no CPU time, as opposed to polling a global variable.
There is very little latency between when a message is sent and when the target thread wakes up and handles the event, as opposed to a polling method where the worst-case latency is the polling period.

For more details on events and event handling, see the WaitEvent method

Examples

Dim tl As New Thread(“TestThread”)
tl.Start
  :
tl.SendEvent(&H10)               ' Send event 5 to thread