From: Francis Glassborow on 25 Jun 2010 13:35 neil wrote: > Out of curiousity what does multi threading mean here? A program compiled including playpen will run in more than one thread. There is a background thread (running concurrently with the users program) that does a raw keyboard scan (so that the keys you hit are transferred directly to the program) and manages the mouse and the graphics window. Again these are designed to be transparent to the target user but such facilities do require a considerable amount of support code. |